{"id":20954,"date":"2026-02-11T21:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20954"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:46:24","slug":"2026-winter-olympics-gbs-lilah-fear-lewis-gibson-miss-out-on-figure-skating-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20954","title":{"rendered":"2026 Winter Olympics: GB&#8217;s Lilah Fear &#038; Lewis Gibson miss out on figure skating medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson missed out on becoming the first British figure skaters in 32 years to win an Olympic medal, as they failed to make the ice dance podium at Milan-Cortina 2026.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fear tripped on the second element of their free-dance routine, and despite skating cleanly for the remainder it proved too much of an obstacle to overcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After an embrace on the ice, Fear and Gibson left the rink to applause from the large British presence in the crowd. Fear was visibly upset as the scores came in to confirm they would not claim a place on the podium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means the wait goes on for British skating since Dame Jayne Torvill and Sir Christopher Dean won bronze at the Lillehammer Games in 1994.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Winter #Olympics #GBs #Lilah #Fear #Lewis #Gibson #figure #skating #medal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson mi&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}