Valova & Vasiliev (URS) - 1984 Sarajevo, Pairs’ Long Program

Sarajevo, YUGOSLAVIA - 1984 Winter Games, Figure Skating, Pairs’ Long Program - Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev of the Soviet Union skated a strong program to win the Gold Medal here. Includes a profile on the pair. For those who are too young to remember, St, Petersburg was renamed Leningrad after the Communist took over the Russian republics and became the Soviet Union. After the fall of the Soviet Union, cities that had a name change during the Communist era were reverted back to their original names.