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Ice-skating duo qualify for Olympics
A Chorley ice-skater and her partner say they can't wait to follow in the footsteps of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean by competing at the Winter Olympics.
Stacey Kemp and David King will be the first British pair in 16 years to compete when they take to the ice in Vancouver in 2010 after qualifying from the recent World Championships.
It was the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, where Torvill and Dean won bronze, which proved to the inspiration for the Clayton-le-Woods skater to take up the sport.
Now, she is looking forward to the prospect of taking her place on the world's biggest stage.
Stacey, speaking during a well-earned break in Spain, said: "This was our dream from the first day we stepped on the ice aged six.
"We couldn't really have hoped for anything more as we had two clean programmes with a personal best in the free skate and overall competition.
"This year was the strongest World Championships for a very long time and we knew we had to step up our performances. We had a lot of positive comments from the judges who said we looked a lot stronger on the ice.
"I don't think it has actually sunk in yet that we are actually going to the Olympics, it's a bit surreal."
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Saturday 04 February 2012
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