Great Britain's prominent ice dance duo, Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson, suffered an agonizingly close miss at the World Figure Skating Championships, narrowly losing out on a podium finish.
In a dramatically tight conclusion to the event, the British pair missed securing a coveted world medal by a razor-thin margin of less than a fifth of a point. The deciding factor in their final standing was a devastating two-point penalty, which the judges applied after ruling that the duo had performed an "illegal element" during their routine.
The costly deduction ultimately bumped Fear and Gibson out of the medal places, dashing their hopes of bringing home World Championship silverware despite a highly competitive showing on the ice.