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Team GB won two medals at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics [Team GB]
Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson will bid to win Britain's first Winter Olympic figure skating medal since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1994 at next year's Games in Milan-Cortina.
Fear and Gibson are among the eight skaters who have been selected in the squad for the 2026 Games, which begin on 6 February.
The pair ended a 40-year wait for a British medal at the World Championship in the ice dance this year.
Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez (ice dance), Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby (pairs), Kristen Spours (women's singles) and Edward Appleby (team event - men's singles) complete the squad.
Torvill and Dean won ice dance bronze at Lillehammer to go with their famous gold at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, watched by a UK television audience of 23 million.
"Being selected for Milano Cortina 2026 is incredibly special," said 26-year-old Fear.
"We've grown so much since Beijing (in 2022), and to come into this season with the momentum we've built feels really meaningful."
Gibson, 31, said: "This is a huge honour and a moment we've been working towards step by step."
Team GB chef de Mmission Eve Muirhead said: To select a squad of this size - our largest in nearly 40 years - is a testament to the incredible work being done in British ice skating."
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