Pair skating
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Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give t
Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan, the reigning Olympic champions in pair skating
German pair team Madge Syers and Edgar Syers at the 1908 Olympics
Liudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (the "Protopopovs"), in 1968
Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov, in 1972
The pairs' figure skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on February 9 and 11 at the Salt Lake Ice Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. Originally, Elena Berezhnaya
Pair skating
…program, and the structure of competitions in both single and pair competitions has been identical since the elimination of compulsory figures in 1990. A judging scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, "ushered in sweeping reforms in the scoring system" of figure skating competitions. The scandal…
Belarusian stamp commemorating the 2002 Winter Olympics