Ekaterina Gordeeva
Ekaterina Gordeeva
Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeevais a Russianfigure skater. Together with her partner and husband, the late Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion in Pair Skating. After Grinkov's death, Gordeeva continued performing as a singles skater...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionFigure Skater
Date of Birth28 May 1971
CityMoscow, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
knew russian-athlete
I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.
mom full-time-mom
I'm almost a full-time mom.
gold unions firsts
The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.
healing ice kind
To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.
jobs
I love that I have a job that I love.
important
Family is always the most important part.
meals cooks good-meals
I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.
beautiful ready wide
She (Daria) has Sergei's wide and ready smile, so beautiful to me.
appreciate tomorrow life-is
The life is a wonderful thing. You have to appreciate it NOW... because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow.
family simple important
Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.
heart able steps
So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.
worry people tragedy
Sometimes it bothers me that people now only recognize me because of tragedy. But I've come to understand that people really care and worry for me. I feel I should say to every person I meet, 'I'm fine. Daria's fine. Life goes on.'
reading angel heaven
The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can go up to heaven and mermaids can't, you (Daria) said, 'See that's like Papa. He lives in heaven. With the angels'