Rodnina and Zaitsev have great energy and great power, but they are not complete in the sense that Randy and Tai are. I don't think that next year's championship is by any means decided yet.

Rodnina won 10 straight World Championships from 1969 through 1978 and the Olympic gold medals in 1972, 1976 and 1980, the first with Ulanov, the latter two with Zaitsev. Rodnina went on to coach ...

Tai Babilonia, who with pairs partner Randy Gardner won five U.S. championships and the 1979 world championship, competed and toured with Rodnina and her partner Alexander Zaitsev throughout the ...

After the 1980 Games, Rodnina and Zaitsev, who married in 1979, coached for the Soviet Sports Federation. In the 1990s, they immigrated to the U.S., ...

Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretiak light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, ... she won the following two golds with Alexander Zaitsev.

Rodnina, 64, won three consecutive gold medals from 1972 to 1980 in the pairs competition with Alexei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev. Tretiak, 61, tended goal for the Soviet hockey team's gold medal ...

SOCHI, Russia (AP) One of the greatest goaltenders of all time and an innovative figure skater who won three straight Olympic pairs titles lit the cauldron together Friday night at the opening ...

The last pairs' team to repeat as Olympic champion was Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev for the Soviet Union in 1976 and 1980. None of the other top seven pairs from the 2022 Olympics are ...

Included are Scott Hamilton, Peggy Fleming, Torvil & Dean, John Curry, Rodnina & Zaitsev, Janet Lynn, Toller Cranston, Kitty & Peter Carruthers, Dorothy Hamill, Robin Cousins, Katarina Witt ...

Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretiak light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, Pool)SOCHI ...

One of the greatest goaltenders of all time and an innovative figure skater who won three straight Olympic pairs titles lit the cauldron together Friday night at the opening ceremony of the Sochi ...