You have a daughter to live for." When Gordeeva returned as a single skater, observers were impressed by what Powell called her "elegant fusion of raw emotion and gentle, ballerina-style grace." Fellow skater Brian Boitano told Lopez, "People are mesmerized by her."Īccording to Mark Starr in Newsweek, Gordeeva said after that performance, "I want you to know I skated tonight not alone. My mother told me you have to get up now.
The transition from pairs skating to solo skating was difficult, but Gordeeva told Lopez, "You can't lock yourself inside yourself or you'll die. In early 1996, three months after Grinkov's death, she skated again, solo, at a tribute to Grinkov in Hartford, Connecticut. In addition, she missed the feel and flow of skating, and she decided to return to the ice. Although she considered giving up skating forever, she realized that she was not trained to do anything else. Gordeeva took Grinkov's body home to Moscow for the funeral and spent three months in Russia. Heart disease ran in his family his father had died from a heart attack in his fifties. After his death, doctors determined that two of the arteries in his heart had been completely blocked. Grinkov, who had appeared to be completely healthy except for a problem with high blood pressure, had suffered a massive heart attack.
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