Athletistic / Figure skating. Irina Rodnina, a three-time Olympic figure skating champion and now a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, expressed her great surprise at the decision to bury the ashes of the legendary Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov in St. Petersburg.
“I didn’t know that Lyudmila and Oleg wanted to be buried in St. Petersburg. This is a discovery for me, I didn’t know about it at all. But since this is their desire, then it’s good,” Match TV quotes Rodnina as saying.
The couple Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov became six times champions of the USSR, won the World and European Championships four times, won the Olympic Games in 1964 in Innsbruck and 1968 in Grenoble. In 1979, Belousova and Protopopov were invited to Switzerland for demonstrations, where they remained to live. In August 1995, they became Swiss citizens.
Oleg Protopopov died on October 31, 2023. His will stated that he and his wife were to be buried in St. Petersburg. Lyudmila Belousova died in September 2017.
Source: Sport
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