Winter Olympics: Team GB take seventh place in figure skating

Team GB's figure skating duo Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson missed out on a medal in the Winter Olympics.

They finished seventh overall after an accidental trip from Lilah during the second part of their routine caused them to have a points deduction.

The ice dancers were aiming to be the first British figure skaters in 32 years to win an Olympic medal, since Dame Jayne Torvill and Sir Christopher Dean won bronze.

"I can't believe it happened," Lilah said afterwards. "I am replaying it in my head and it's just such a shame. I don't really have the words yet. It will take me some time to process."

"It was just a really costly technical mistake, which was tough very early in the programme because I knew that we'd lost bronze at that point," Lilah Fear told BBC Sport.

"But I also really wanted to not let the Olympic experience just disappear because of that so it's this battle of taking it in and doing my best the rest of the way while also knowing what I'd just done.

"And it's not what we've trained, it was costly and devastating," she said.

"When you don't perform the way you want to, on any day, it's tough to take but at the Olympic Games, it's even harder," Lewis Gibson said.

"I think we'll look back at this one day and 100% learn from it. We do that at every single event that we go to and compete in. We'll just move forward" he said.

The figure skating competition is split into two parts at the Olympics: a free dance routine - which allows for more freedom - and a rhythm dance routine - which has to feature specific moves skaters need to include in their performance.

Fear and Gibson were in fourth place after their first dance - a Spice Girls-inspired rhythm routine.

For their free dance the couple danced to a Scottish medley of songs including: The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond, Auld Lang Syne and The Proclaimers 'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)' – and included highland dance choreography into the routine.

France's Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry took Gold in the figure skating, with Madison Chock and Evan Bates of USA winning silver, and bronze went to Canada's Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier.

So far Great Britain has not won a medal at this year's Winter Olympics in Milan in Italy.