Fans of figure skating will always remember the two-time Olympic champion in pair skating Oleg Protopopov, the Honored Coach of the USSR said on . Tatyana Tarasova .
On Friday, Skating Lesson announced that Protopopov had died at the age of 91. During his sports career, the skater performed in tandem with his wife Lyudmila Belousova. The duo won the USSR championships six times, the world and European championships four times, and won gold at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games.
– The greatest of all the greats. His last name will always be remembered, their skating will always be remembered. All the performances were brilliant. In general, it was such a couple that there was no other like it. And it won’t. It’s such a scale that it was a joy to see them. “I sympathize with all fans of figure skating, because, of course, an absolutely brilliant person has died, Oleg Alekseevich Protopopov,” Tarasova said on the air of the program “Everyone for the match!”
Lyudmila Belousova died in September 2017.
Source : MatchTV
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