Pestova and Leonovich 1980 Olympics LP

[russianskatingfan]

They were robbed of a medal. Horrible judging.

[bellasarahskates]

Marina is such a beautiful skater!!!! She is my skating coach and she rarely ever skates....

[dramask8rgrl]

OMG!!!! Marina is one of my skating coaches too! This is soooo cool seeing her skate. She and her husband Marat Akbarov are both my coaches. haha! Thanks for the upload!!!! :D

[YuNaKimIsNumbr1]

heyy where do u skate? they coach at my rink 2!!!

[dramask8rgrl]

I skate at Cabin John Ice Rink. hbu?

[YuNaKimIsNumbr1]

wheaton! i think i went 2 ther once on a girl scout trip.......we played curling. weeee. not so fun.

don't u guys hav like 2-3 rinks? or maybe thats the gardens.......

[figuresk8rtripleaxel]

marina is 1 of my skating teachers!

[zilam98]

and come to think of it, pestova and leonovich were about the same ages in this OG as katia and sergei were in the 88 OG.

[zilam98]

i have to agree. and i keep wondering, had this pair continued competing right up through the middle 80s, they would've competed against G&G. it would've made for a very interesting match up!

[jessicav2371]

wow does this remind anyone else of an early gordeeva grinkov program?? i could totally see g&g skating this. crazy!!

[lps773]

Not crazy. The coach of G & G was Stanislav Leonovich.

[gvsku]

More importantly, Pestova-Leonovich were coached by the great Stanislav Zhuk who later created G-G as a pair

[88centspiece]

Zhuk did not create G&G as a pair. He actually threatened to split them up (read Katia's book 'My Sergei'). He did coach them for a year and he coached this pair as well.