Dreamy Olympic ice dancer Lewis Gibson is prepping for a new season & he’s in the best spot of his entire career
A post shared by Lewis K Gibson | Ice Dancer (@lewisgibson4)Gibson and Fear enjoyed a breakthrough 2022-23 season, capturing silver at the European Championships.
The out gay Scottish dancer and his partner produced the best finish for a British team since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won gold in 1994.
Performing to a medley of Lady Gaga hits, Gibson and Fear’s high-tempo routine wow’d the crowd and judges.They started off with a classical version of “Bad Romance,” before accelerating their energy for their final number, with “Born This Way” blaring in the background. “The crowd was electrifying and we fed off of that,” Gibson said in the post-skate presser. “It was so amazing when we got to perform with everybody behind us.”Following their spectacular silver medal triumph, Gibson and Fear finished a career-best fourth at the World Championships in Japan, just 3.15 points behind the bronze medalists. “We really wanted to show how much we can give in a competition,” said Gibson in a recent interview. “Not skate cautiously, because you’re not going to get the results you want for that.
I think for us, going into Worlds, we wanted that, and we were able to achieve that, and it’s so exhilarating.”Since breaking through at the 2022 World Championships, they’ve enjoyed four ISU Grand Prix podium finishes, two events wins in the ISU Challenger Series and four straight British national titles.In addition, Gibson and Fears made their first Olympics in 2022, finishing 10th in rhythm dance and ninth in free dance. “Team GB has had such a long legacy of ice dance in particular,” said Gibson afterwards, via Olympics.com. “We’re just so proud to carry that on and continue to carry it on as well.”A post shared by Lewis K Gibson | Ice Dancer (@lewisgibson4)A post shared by Lewis K Gibson | Ice Dancer (@lewisgibson4)A post shared by Lewis K Gibson | Ice Dancer (@lewisgibson4)Rather than rest this offseason, Gibson and Fear participated in their first tour, Fantasy on Ice, an.
