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...that $1 million annual incomes for name skaters are now routine. Rosenberg represents 41 skaters and, with exquisite timing, dumped Harding as a client just days before the clubbing because her husband was making him nuts. "You've got Nancy with her stock suffering, Oksana never winning another competition...Katia [Gordeeva's nickname] is the only one now of the four...
...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, wonderful; we don't want to lose her. Solo yes, but never alone. PATRICIA LAUNDERS Sherman Oaks, California...
...embodied both power and elegance. They projected themselves not as lovers but as older brother and little sister--siblings who could skate in perfect unison and perform a quadruple twist. It was after Calgary that they fell in love, and in 1991 they married in Moscow. Katia gave birth to their daughter Daria in 1992, but they continued to skate together professionally. For Lillehammer in '94, G and G returned to the amateur rank, and they were so transcendent that they won the gold despite a couple of slips. According to John Nicks, a U.S. Olympic coach, "the change...
They had settled in Simsbury, Connecticut, the site of the International Skating Center, enjoying an idyllic life and training with American and other expatriate Russian skaters--many of whom accompanied Katia and Daria to Moscow for Sergei's funeral on Saturday. One of those was Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton, who offered this sentiment last week: "Kurt Browning once said the only flaw in G and G's program was that it wasn't long enough. The same can be said for Sergei's life...
Their friends expect that Katia will return to Simsbury after the traditional Russian Orthodox 40-day mourning period and resume her skating, probably as a solo performer--she could never find Sergei's equal. "The perfect pair," says commentator and two-time Olympic gold medalist Dick Button. "They had everything. He was the perfect husband; they had the perfect career, the perfect marriage...