After she skates off the ice, Ekaterina picks up her little daughter and embraces her with a huge hug. Then Ekaterina starts to cry as the entire arena stands to give her a round of applause. At the end of it, she outstretches her arms to the sky like she is reaching out for her Sergei. Her ice skating moves as well as her facial expressions show all of those feelings as well as grief.
The whole performance is very emotional, full of longing and anguish and sorrow. As she is skating around the ice, it almost looks like she is looking around in search of Sergei, her partner and true love of many years. Shen then starts her beautiful routine with somber instrumental music playing in the background.
I think that’s why it was so pure.”Īt the start of the figure skating routine, soft lights illuminate the ice while Ekaterina skates out to the middle of the rink. “Everything was so natural for us,” Ekaterina says when thinking about her and Sergei’s relationship. Filmed on February 27, 1996, this video shows how 15,000 fans and many of figure skating’s top competitors gathered to pay tribute to the life of Sergei Grinkov and support Ekaterina Gordeeva as she moved forward with her life and career on the ice.
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