Word: gordeeva
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Katia Gordeeva emerges from the elevator lobby in a hotel at Baltimore's Inner Harbor and comes toward you as if she's walking a plank. Another interview. Wonderful. More questions about the dark passage from Olympic glory to the depths of sorrow. Swell...
...blame her? Only a little more than two years ago, she lost the only man she ever loved. Gordeeva had grown up in his arms, and he had died in hers, and though she needs to move beyond that now, the questions always drag her back. Gordeeva, 26, folds her body in half to sit down and is so tiny the chair looks like a prop. She sits impatiently, tragically beautiful, forever fractured. And then she says, "I'm not so strong inside as I look outside...
...Gordeeva was but 11, a slip of a girl, when she and fellow Muscovite Sergei Grinkov first skated together. They would swoon their way to four world championships and take Olympic gold in 1988 and again...
Oksana did the Manhattan club scene. She bought the Mercedes. She snapped up a $450,000 house in Connecticut. "She had no parents to tell her to stop," says Gordeeva, a caring friend and, at the time, a neighbor. "When you're preparing for the Olympics, it is so completely consuming that you really don't have much else of a life," says Starbuck. "Consequently, you don't have a lot of wisdom or other life experiences. Before the Olympics you have someone holding your hand. Afterward, you're young and naive and vulnerable, and you don't always have...
...remember her telling me, 'Katia, I hate it, I hate it. I never want to skate again,'" says Gordeeva...