For a time, ice dance was something of a second-rate Olympic figure skating discipline. Without the spectacular jumps, it simply didn't garner as much attention as the pairs and singles events. Then along came Great Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who arguably defined the modern sport of ice dance with their gold medal performance at the 1984 Olympics. Their now-iconic "Bolero" program became the highest-scoring program of all time under the old 6.0 system, earning 12 perfect 6.0s and six 5.9s, including a perfect artistic impression score from every single judge. Today, almost every ice dance team can look to Torvill and Dean as the trailblazers who put their discipline on the map.
Watch Torvill and Dean earn their gold medal here.
