Valova & Vasiliev (URS) - 1984 Sarajevo, Pairs' Long Program

Sarajevo, YUGOSLAVIA - 1984 Winter Games, Figure Skating, Pairs' Long Program - Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev of the Soviet Union skated a strong program to win the Gold Medal here. Includes a profile on the pair. For those who are too young to remember, St, Petersburg was renamed Leningrad after the Communist took over the Russian republics and became the Soviet Union. After the fall of the Soviet Union, cities that had a name change during the Communist era were reverted back to their original names.

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[MrDolenz]

In terms of technical content, they did try harder jumps, but they are very lyrical so I guess overall my vote would go to them

[nondescriptnyc]

@indiatree  Those were triples. Her step out on SBS 2A wasn't considered a major error because there were only a few pairs even attempting them. The Curruthers (and Martini/Underhill) didn't really have any substantive SBS moves, which was their weakness.

[russianskatingfan]

@Novelwit2000 your logic is piss poor. A team or skater doesnt have to be the best ever to win a gold medal, they just have to be the best at that competition. You only have to beat the skaters in the same event, not the other champions in history.  Let me guess you are one of those dumb American crybabies that think the overrated Carruthers who were lucky to get silver would have been more deserving Olympic Champions, LOL!

[bemar1972]

Beautiful triple toeloops, and uncredible comment of Dick Button - DOUBLE toeloops!

[libralady1010]

Oh absolutely. They were very well matched and the interpretation of their choices of music was superb.