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Roman Kostomarov, who won gold for Russia at the 2006 winter Olympics in Turin, has his wife permanently by his hospital bedside after enduring a bout of pneumonia that left him hospital-bound and having suffered numerous amputations, it has been reported.
The ice dancing champion, 46, was admitted to hospital in Moscow earlier this year suffering from pneumonia and as a result was forced to have his left foot and several fingers amputated owing to necrosis and sepsis.
Despite being admitted to Kommunarka in Moscow for specialist care, his situation continued to worsen, requiring ventilators to keep him alive.
He has suffered a brain haemorrhage and two strokes and as a result was placed into an induced coma. He was brought out of it, reports suggest, but fears remain over his condition.
Bild, the German publication, report his wife Oksana Domnina, herself an ice dancing world champion (2009) and Olympic bronze medallist (2010) will not leave his
