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- In 1964, Ludmila
- Belousova [bell-ew-SO-
- va] and Oleg Protopopov
- [pro-toe-POP-off] became
- the first skating pair from
- the Soviet Union to win an Olympic gold
- medal. Since 1964, the Soviets and now the
- Russians have won every gold medal in
- pairs skating. (The Soviet Union broke into
- independent republics in 1991. Russia is
- one of those republics.)
-
- Oleg started skating late in life, at age 16,
- but Ludmila began as a child after seeing
- Sonja Henie in a movie. Ludmila and Oleg
- first met at a Moscow skating rink and were
- married in 1957.
-
- In 1960, the Protopopovs placed ninth
-