Training sessions, competitions, common interests, championships and the will to win bring people together. Olympic couples in this St. Valentine's photo gallery by ITAR-TASS
Olympic couples
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Snowboarders Vic Wild and Alena Zavarzina got married in 2011. Vic now has Russian citizenship
© EPA/CHRISTOPHE KARABA/ITAR-TASS/Artyom Korotaev Charles Hamelin of Canada is dating another Canadian athlete Marianne St-Gelais
© EPA/ANATOLY MALTSEV American bobsledder Nick Taylor proposed to his teammate Elana Meyers at the World Championships in Switzerland. She said yes
© EPA/ARNO BALZARINI Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov are not only a figure skating pair
© ИТАР-ТАСС/ EPA/ BARBARA WALTON Russian ficgure skaters Kseniya Stolbova and Dmitry Solovyov are also romantically involved
© ITAR-TASS/Vitaly Belousov/ITAR-TASS/Artyom Korotaev Russian hockey player Alexander Ovechkin is dating Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko
© AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev Russian skier Ilya Chernousov is involved with Switzerland's biathlete Selin Gasparin. Selin won a silver medal in Sochi and praised Ilya's contribution to her victory
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin Russian figure skater Alexei Yagudin, gold medalist of the Olympics in Salt Lake City, is seeing another Russian skater Tatiana Totyamina, also olympic gold medalist. They have a daughter.
© Mitya Aleshkovsky US biathlete Tim Burke is dating teh famous German biathlete Andrea Henkel
© AP Photo/Felipe Dana / EPA/HENDRIK SCHMIDT Figure skaters Maylin Wende and Daniel Wende of Germany got married in June 2013
© EPA/BARBARA WALTON