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Exactly twenty years ago, & egrave; Sergei Grinkov died prematurely, one of the pair skaters more & ugrave; winning history.
Friday 20 November 2015 7 minutes reading time
At the side of the companion on the ice and in life Ekaterina Gordeeva, she won two Olympic Games, four world titles and three continental titles.
Questionable disqualification of EURO 1987 in part, spouses Grinkov ended the racing career with nine wins and two second places in eleven appearances in European and World Championships and Olympics.
Sergei Grinkov & egrave; a tragic failure Monday & Igrave; November, hit a twenty-eight years of a heart attack while in Lake Placid was preparing plans for the renowned Tour Stars On Ice. It was about to perform a lift when he suddenly stopped & ograve ;. Ekaterina asked him if he was okay and he said he felt a bit & rsquo; dizziness. By return, he sat down on the ice helped by his wife, but, after a few moments, lost consciousness dying almost instantly.
L & rsquo; autopsy Demo & ograve; the Russian champion was suffering from a rare congenital disease & Outdoors; 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 possibilities & 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 earlier, the father of 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, bewitched by & rsquo; harmony, the personality & agrave; and from class on the ice of two boys, along the way, discovered the & rsquo; love, had crowned their romantic path convoluted the knot in & rsquo; in April 1991, when Sergei had 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 skated on discrete levels, occasionally accompanying the mother in the show.
Gordeeva / Grinkov, after winning on all possible fronts between 1985, the year he won the junior world title, and 1990 when it filed the fourth success in the World Championships, they decided to turn professional just in the spring of 1990, but few years later, cos & Igrave; like the legendary Katarina Witt, the possibility usufruirono & agrave; to return to amateur status, regaining the & rsquo; & agrave stand as a candidate; Olympic in view of the review in five circles of 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 artistic & egrave; He managed to win two victories in the Olympic Games. L & rsquo; only one with the & rsquo; Company & egrave; was Artur Dmitriev, but competing with different partners.
The grace in every movement, the lightness on the ice, the perfect unison and l & rsquo; absolute harmony have made Gordeeva / Grinkov a couple cult of discipline, remembered years later with affection and admiration from experts 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 partnership he was born and raised at the renowned CSKA Moscow, c & rsquo; & egrave; Marina Zoueva also been, for years the main choreographer of Sergei and Katia. Precisely, the figure is Zoueva Detection & ograve; fundamental for Ekaterina when, after the death of his companion and a state funeral took place in the Russian capital, he was seized with an understandable discomfort from which he managed & Igrave; slowly recovering thanks to the & rsquo; love for skating, along with Sergei the main reason for living.
The story of the two Russian skaters & egrave; It was told in a book, entitled & ldquo; My Sergei: A history d & rsquo; & rdquo ;, love written by Gordeeva in collaboration with a journalist of the US magazine Sports Illustrated. Text & egrave; It was then used to make a short film of the same name.
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