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...PARTNER in one of figure skating's greatest pairs, the news would have been devastating enough. Had he been simply a young father with an adoring wife, a precious three-year-old daughter and so much to live for, his death would have seemed unfathomable. But because Sergei Grinkov was Prince Charming on and off the ice, his fatal heart attack at the age of 28 last week is agonizingly tragic, not just for the millions who have watched him and his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva perform but especially for the close-knit skating community that had come to believe...
Wylie was one of the first skaters to reach Grinkov's side after he collapsed during a Nov. 20 morning practice at the Lake Placid Olympic Center for the upcoming Stars on Ice tour. Grinkov and Gordeeva had been rehearsing a program set to the music of Edvard Grieg's Concerto in A Minor. (Coincidentally, Grieg's wife Nina, a singer, was his professional partner.) After the routine, Sergei told Katia he was dizzy and slumped to the ice. For the first time since they began skating together in 1982, it was Gordeeva who softened Grinkov's fall...
...their coach, Marina Zueva, and two emergency medical technicians tried to resuscitate Grinkov, Wylie raced over. "I touched his skate to say a prayer for him," said Wylie. "But his leg was limp." Within four minutes an ambulance arrived to take Grinkov to the Adirondack Medical Center. For nearly an hour, Dr. Joshua Schwartzberg and the hospital staff worked to revive him, but Grinkov never responded, and he was pronounced dead at 12:28 p.m. When Schwartzberg gave Gordeeva the news, she sobbed on the floor, with Zueva at her side. She then asked if she could see her husband...
...also has a partner -- that handsome chap Grinkov, who tossed Gordeeva so effortlessly around the rink. Twinned by Moscow's Central Army Sports Club six years ago, neither has ever had another partner. Yet they spend little time together off the ice. Grinkov is 21, and his tastes run to books and ice hockey, while Gordeeva likes to collect toys, sew and surprise her teammates with batches of home-baked cookies. "We just practice together," says Grinkov. Romantics can take heart that perhaps it is just the age difference. Gordeeva is, after all, only 16. With her wide-eyed fawn...
...reap just two medals: the 1,500-meter silver taken by Flaim, and a bronze won with a bobble and a splat by Figure Skaters Peter Oppegard and Jill Watson. The U.S. pair looked thrilled anyway, and the gold-medal spectacle of Soviet 5-ft. 11-in. Sergei Grinkov tossing 4-ft. 11-in. Ekaterina Gordeeva into the rafters enthralled almost everyone...