ON THIS DAY:

February 14

1984: British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (below) won Olympic gold in Sarajevo for their dance interpretation of Ravel’s Bolero, claiming perfect 6.0 scores from all 12 judges.

1989: Peter Scudamore became the third National Hunt jockey, after Stan Mellor and John Francome, to ride 1,000 winners.

2006: Mike Ruddock resigned as Wales coach just 11 months after he steered the team to their first Grand Slam triumph in 27 years. 2010: Dick Francis, the best-selling novelist and rider of Devon Loch at the 1956 Grand National, died at the age of 89.

2013: South African Paralympic and Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was arrested on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend after she was shot dead at his home.