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- at the Winter Olympics.
- The sport was more
- acrobatic in those days,
- but their ballet-like move-
- ments and emotional
- routines made them giants in figure skating
- -- and helped them win world and European
- championships four years in a row (1965-
- 68.) They won their second Olympic gold in
- 1968.
-
- The Protopopovs also invented the death
- spiral, a move in which Oleg held Ludmila
- with one hand and spun her around the ice
- face-up in a big circle. LudmilaΓÇÖs body spun
- parallel to the ice. The death spiral is now a
- required move in pairs skating.
-
- In 1969, the Protopopovs lost their