At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean delivered a performance that didn’t just win gold — it changed figure skating forever. Skating to Maurice Ravel’s Boléro, they began on their knees to work around timing rules, slowly building tension in perfect sync with the music’s relentless crescendo. The result was history: 12 perfect 6.0 scores for artistic impression, a feat never repeated under the old judging system. More than four decades later, Bolero is still

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