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Exactly nineteen years ago, & egrave; Sergei Grinkov died prematurely, one of the skaters couple more & ugrave; Winning history.
Thursday 20 November 2014 7 minutes reading time
At the side of the companion on the ice and in life Ekaterina Gordeeva, won two Olympic Games, four World titles and three titles Continental.
Questionable disqualification of EURO 1987 in hand, the couple Grinkov ended his playing career with nine wins and two second places in eleven appearances between European and World Championships and Olympics.
Sergei Grinkov & egrave; missed a tragic Monday & igrave; November, shot twenty-eight years from a heart attack while in Lake Placid was making plans to tour the renowned Stars On Ice. He was about to perform a lift when it suddenly stopped & ograve ;. Ekaterina asked him if he was okay and he said that some precepiva & rsquo; of dizziness. A return, he sat down on the ice helped by his wife, but, after a few moments he lost consciousness dying almost instantly.
L & rsquo; autopsy Demo & ograve; that the Russian champion was suffering from a rare congenital disease to & rsquo; s right artery of the heart, or almost as & eacute; clogged. According to doctors, only if the disease had been discovered in advance, there would be no chance & agrave; survival thanks to a bypass. However, leaders of Cardiology showed how little could be done because no heart attack would have been virtually impossible to find the malformation. Among the & rsquo; another four years before, his father Sergei manc & ograve; for a similar heart attack, demonstrating a congenital problem, but, unlike the child, had previously been the victim of three mild heart attacks.
The untimely death of Grinkov left stunned fans of the discipline, fascinated by & rsquo; togetherness, the personality & agrave; and class on the ice of two boys, along the way, discovered the & rsquo; s love, had crowned their romantic journey convoluted the knot in & rsquo; April 1991, when Sergei was just twenty-fourth birthday and Ekaterina was preparing to celebrate the twenty springs. From & rsquo; union & egrave; Daria was born in September 1992, which until 2007 had skated on discrete levels, accompanying his mother from time to time in the show.
Gordeeva / Grinkov, after winning on all possible fronts between 1985, when he won the junior world title, and 1990, when it filed the fourth victory in the World Championships, they decided to turn professional right in the spring of 1990, but few years later, cos & igrave; as the legendary Katarina Witt, the possibility usufruirono & agrave; to return to amateur status, regaining the & rsquo; s & agrave stand as a candidate; in view of the Olympic festival in five circles in Lillehammer. Just in the resort & agrave; Norwegian arriv & ograve; the second Olympic title, after six years of success in Calgary. After Gordeeva / Grinkov, no other pair of Art & egrave; managed to win two victories in the Olympic Games. L & rsquo; s only one with the & rsquo; Company & egrave; Artur Dmitriev been but competed with different partners.
The grace in every movement, lightness on the ice, the perfect unison and the & rsquo; s perfect harmony made of Gordeeva / Grinkov a couple cult of discipline, remembered years later with affection and admiration from professionals and fans.
The programs skated during the racing career are unanimously considered milestones in the history of the discipline and represented something unattainable for the vast majority of couples of art. Among those who have helped to enhance the talent of the association was born and raised at the famous CSKA Moscow, there & rsquo; & egrave; Marina Zoueva was also, for many years the main choreographer Sergei and Katia. Precisely, the figure is detection or Zoueva & ograve; critical to Ekaterina when, after the death of the partner and the state funeral took place in the Russian capital, was struck by an understandable discomfort from which he managed & igrave; slowly recovering thanks to the & rsquo; s love for skating, along with Sergei the main reason for living.
The history of the two Russian skaters & egrave; was told in a book entitled & ldquo; My Sergei: A story & rsquo; love & rdquo ;, written by Gordeeva in collaboration with a journalist from US magazine Sports Illustrated. The text & egrave; was then used to produce a short film of the same name.
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