Word: protopopov
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...Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet hobbled home, aching from the loss of three dancers who had defected on the troupe's U.S. tour last month, than Soviet prestige was hit by an even more bruising blow: the defection in Switzerland last week of Figure Skating Champions Oleg Protopopov, 47, and Ludmila Belousova, 43. So alarmed were Soviet officials over the rash of recent defections that they canceled a scheduled 28-concert U.S. tour by the Moscow State Symphony. Before the drastic decision was made, the orchestra's U.S. booking agent, Samuel Niefeld, was suddenly summoned to Moscow. Niefeld...
...Protopopov and Belousova defection had been the cause of particular consternation in the Soviet Union, where the husband-and-wife couple were among the country's most honored athletes. They had vanished at the end of a four-week exhibition tour of West Germany and Switzerland. When it was reported that they had requested political asylum in Switzerland, shock waves struck Moscow. Said a stunned and baffled Soviet sports official: "For sports personalities of their caliber, there are no problems. They had everything they wanted here...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International Figure Skating from Geneva, Switzerland, featuring World Champions Peggy Fleming, Emmerich Danzer and the Protopopov hus-band-and-wife team; International Crosscountry Motorcycle Racing championships from Simi, Calif...
...Russia, it is sometimes hard to tell who is married to whom. Despite their names, OLEG PROTOPOPOV and LUDMILLA BELOUSOVA are man and wife-and the best pairs figure skaters in the world. To the accompaniment of Rachmaninoff, they performed a breathless routine of intricate acrobatics, skated off with the gold medal...