British Ice Skating Federation To Formally Challenge World Championships Results
Can a British Ice Skating challenge overturn the 2026 World championships results? After Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson lost a medal over a controversial call, British Ice Skating announced a formal challenge of the results.
Great Britain's Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson perform during the Ice Dance rhythm dance skating program of the 2026 ISU Figure Skating World Championships in Prague, Czech Republic on March 27, 2026. (Photo by Michal Cizek / AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Another competition, another ice dance scandal. The British Ice Skating Federation has announced that it will formally challenge the results of the ice dance competition at the 2026 ISU World Figure Skating Championships.
British skaters Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson finished fourth on Saturday, trailing silver medalists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada and bronze winners Vadym Kolesnik and Emilea Zingas of the United States. France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron won gold. The fourth-place finish came as a shock to the Brits.
As soon as Fear and Gibson hit the final pose in their skate, the Czech crowd erupted, and the skaters rejoiced. The team had qualified for Saturday’s free dance in third place and delivered what they considered “the skate [they had] been wanting all season. " After winning bronze at the World Championships in Boston last year, the duo looked poised to win their second-straight world medal.
However, Fear and Gibson’s dreamlike Prague performance quickly turned into a nightmare. MORE FROM FORBES What Went Wrong? U.
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