Surfing my FB feed today, a skating friend posted this short film "Mass Bolero," a tribute to the Olympic gold medalists by the people of the city of Nottingham, where they're from. People from all walks of life in Nottingham joined in, with a step-for-step recreation of Bolero (on land). I'm fairly certain the entire town participated. I'm also pretty sure one of the scenes was shot at Hogwarts. Behold the amazingness:
Did you see the Torvill and Dean cameo? And since it's Throwback Thursday, here is the video from the original Bolero in 1984, that earned them a history-making 12 6.0s (across the board for presentation). Phenomenal doesn't even begin to describe it. We truly have yet to see its equal in figure skating since then.
A new fun fact I just picked up about this routine...Torvill and Dean were told that the 17-minute-long Bolero could only be cut down so much, so the music was about 18 seconds longer than Olympic regulation. But they totally ripped the system, not placing their skates on the ice for the first 18 seconds (only when blades hit the ice did the judges start the official count back then). Genius!
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