First serial to People and Redbook Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates author tour. After Grinkov's death, Gordeeva continued performing as a singles skater. The truth is, as a team, Gordeeva and Grinkov were in a class by themselves in their artistry and in their love and devotion to one another. Together with her partner and husband, the late Sergei Grinkov, she was the 19 Olympic Chapion and four-time World Champion in Pairs Skating. The story of their love and their happiness together is deeply moving, and the final chapters are heartrending, while the many photos heighten the tale. Ekaterina 'Katia' Alexandrovna Gordeeva is a Russian (Former Soviet) figure skater. And then, suddenly, Grinkov died of a heart attack in 1995 at age 28. Their success culminated in Olympic gold medals in 19. But as time passed and their joint career led to international championships, they fell in love and married. Throughout their training and into the start of their competitive careers, each thought of the other only as an athletic partner, partly because the four-year difference in their ages meant they had few friends in common. Two such youngsters were Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, paired as skaters by their teachers when they were 11 and 14, respectively.
Children as young as five or six were identified, sent to special schools and given rigorous training in the sports in which they were expected to excel. In the former Soviet Union, the sports establishment, charged with producing winners for the greater glory of the empire, had almost unlimited power over the athletically gifted. Here are some thoughts on Ekaterina Gordeevas memoir about her late husband and skating partner, Sergei Grinkov.Theres an accidental piece of misinformatio.
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