Soviet grace
NZPA-Reuter Calgary Four years of working and waiting finally paid off for Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin when they captured the figure skating’s Olympic ice dancing gold medal yesterday. Since they collected silver behind Britons Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean at the 1984 Sarajevo Games, the Soviets had vowed to go one better.
They realised their ambition with a passionate and sensuous performance to music by the Soviet composer Borodin which earned them three
perfect scores of 6.0 from the nine-judge panel. But that was four less than they received at last month’s European championships and they were also awarded a surprisingly low 5.5 from West German judge Willi Wernz for artistry — a score which might have stripped some gloss from their victory. Team-mates Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, who have been overshadowed by Bestemianova and Bukin for as long as the new champions were by Torvill and Dean, took the silver and stamped themselves as champions of the future.
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Press, 25 February 1988, Page 32
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