Why Britain’s skating golden boy died lonely, bitter and broke: John Curry captivated the world Daily Mail

On a cold winter’s evening in February 1976, 20 million Britons turned on their TVs to watch the Winter Olympics ice skating.

It didn’t matter that most of them knew nothing about it. The whole country was in thrall to a dazzling new talent who had burst upon the scene and turned the sport entirely on its head.

That phenomenon was an athlete named John Curry who had already secured the European title and would that night add Olympic gold to his tally. Impossibly handsome, he appeared to those who watched him to combine athleticism and art, masculinity and beauty. He was mesmerising.

An innovator and hugely creative talent.

 Curry had changed ice skating from a marginal sport to something sensual and deeply moving.

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