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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...
GRIEF FOR GRINKOV...
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...
...autopsy revealed that Grinkov's death was caused by severe blockages of two coronary arteries, one of which is known as "the widowmaker." His father had died suddenly four years ago at age 52, and Grinkov had high blood pressure, as well as an enlarged heart. The autopsy also revealed that the skater had suffered a heart attack in the 24 hours before his death, but given his stoic nature and his high threshold of pain--he often skated with shoulder and back miseries--Grinkov might have brushed off the attack as mere discomfort. Indeed, the essence of his genius...