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It would have been easier, even understandable, for Ekaterina Gordeeva to put away her skates and grieve her husband’s death.
Instead, the woman the world knows as Katya will skate again Tuesday in Hartford — not to mourn his death, but to celebrate his life.
Sergei Grinkov would be proud.
It’s been three months since Grinkov, half of the best pairs-skaters team in the world, collapsed and died of a heart attack at Three months since Gordeeva saw the strength and soul of her life vanish on a Lake Placid practice rink.
And yet, after the Moscow funeral and the traditional Russian day mourning period, her toughest times weren’t her days off the ice. The most difficult days, Gordeeva’s most emotional moments, were when she first skated alone.
“It was very, very difficult,” said Gordeeva, who will skate a solo tribute to her husband during the Stars on Ice tour at the Civic Center. “The first three or four days, it was very hard to do anything. All the feelings were very fresh, all my thoughts were very sensitive.
“Skating without Sergei was very unreal, very unnatural. My emotional side was down. I didn’t have my partner, half of my body, with me.”
Two minds, two bodies, two souls, but they skated as one. Ev
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Elena Gordeeva: "Katerina dreamed pattern us having children imprecision the harmonized time."
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"Olympic gold medallists Ekaterina Gordeeva, 30, and Ilia Kulik, 24, welcomed their first child, daughter, Elizavetta, on June 15 in L.A. Gordeeva has a daughter, Daria, 8, with her late husband and ice skating partner, Sergei Grinkov, who died during a practice session.
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"Maria" <m@> wrote:
Katya has definitely undertaken grand genetic experiment as far as
producing potential figure skaters, having produced a set of
half-sisters with Olympic Gold Medalist parents. There must be a fair
number of kids with Gold Meda