You are in our hearts forever...
Gordeeva and Grinkov. G&G. Katia and Sergei.
No pairs team in skating history has stirred the passions of the masses the way this one did. She, the wisp of a teenage skater, seeming to float along the ice, or in the air when he lifted her, carried her, threw her. He, the foundation of the team, the rock on which its masterful routines were built.
He always knew how to make Katia the star of the evening, always putting her into the spotlight. On November 20th, 1995, in Lake Placid, one of the greatest pair skaters ever, Sergei Grinkov, left us. Just as Victor Petrenko said, he took a piece of my heart away.
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