Word: zaitsevs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professional amateur, with a salary paid by the state and a standard of living roughly equivalent to that of a successful factory manager. Vladimir Yashchenko, 21, a world-class high jumper busily training for the Olympics, receives a stipend of $400 from the government. Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 28, the 1980 winter Olympic champion figure-skating pair, live in a two-bedroom apartment in downtown Moscow, a privilege seldom granted to a couple so young. Once their playing days are over, many Olympic athletes can look forward to careers as coaches and sport administrators...
...Soviets Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev certainly are not "uninspired." They are the best pair-skating team ever to take...
...world champions in the graceful art of pairs figure skating. Not only were the Americans still getting better, still adding to their repertoire of lifts and leaps, but they would be competing against the Soviet Union's husband-and-wife team of Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 27, who had taken the Olympic gold medal in 1976 and who had won six world titles. Last year, when Randy and Tai won the world championship, the Soviets were not competing; Irina was having a child. The Russians too had added new moves to their traditional routines...
...Eric's sister Beth, 19, leads an American bid to sweep all three medals. In the pairs' figure skating, America's Tai Babilonia, 19, and Randy Gardner, 20, open their duel with the Soviets' husband-and-wife team of Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 27, in the "short program," which lasts two minutes or less and involves set routines. The most unforgiving event of the pairs' competition, the test could give an advance indication of who will win the gold...
...World Champion Vladimir Kovalev, like Countryman Zaitsev, is fast, strong and sure, if a bit wooden. East Germany's Jan Hoffmann is a methodical craftsman, usually not daring enough to take chances but steady enough to walk over those who risk and fall short. Tickner, 26, whose turn in the round-robin of world champions came in 1978, is like a sophisticated Broadway chorus dancer who can give you the big moves but takes particular delight in demonstrating the fun and precision of a few simple tap steps...