Word: ekaterina
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Four female skaters Lutzed out of Lillehammer in 1994 as international household names, and each would probably like to redo at least part of the re-entry. Ekaterina Gordeeva, two-time gold-medal winner in pairs skating, watched at a skating rink as her 28-year-old partner and husband died in her arms of undiagnosed heart disease, in November 1995. Oksana Baiul, the pixie 16-year-old Ukrainian orphan who struck gold in the singles, celebrated with a nonstop party that ended when she wrapped her green Mercedes-Benz around a few innocent conifers while under the influence...
TRAGIC HEROINE OF THE YEAR: Widowed skater and best-selling memoirist Ekaterina Gordeeva...
RHYTHMIC The ones to beat are Maria Petrova of Bulgaria and Ekaterina Serebrianskaya of Ukraine...
THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOVING TRIBUTE to figure skater Sergei Grinkov [SPORT, Dec. 4]. I, like many others, knew him only through his performance, but I still feel a tremendous sadness at his passing. In this world so filled with violence and hate, Grinkov and his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva brought sweetness and magic with them whenever they stepped on the ice. Watching them somehow made everything beautiful. If there's an answer to why so perfect a union should be ended, it will take a wiser mind than mine to make sense of it. If Katia decides to skate solo...
...FIGURE-SKATING FAN, I WAS DEEPLY saddened by the sudden death of Grinkov. I had tears in my eyes as I read in your story of his wife Ekaterina's sad final farewell to him. On ice, they performed with such grace, precision and unison that it was simply spellbinding. The deep love they had for each other was so evident that sometimes I felt I was intruding by watching them.What a devastating loss this is. JASMINE KUNG Anaheim, California...