That was why it could not last." Maybe so. Olympic gold medalist and her friend? "Maybe everything was too good, too perfect. What was it she had said to Skott Hamilton, the 1984 U.S. Wrapped in the arms of the same Russian Orthodox priest who had married her to Sergei Grinkov only 4 and a half years ago, she cried and cried, cried for Sergei and cried for herself, cried at the realization that the words "and they lived happily ever after" were only words after all. The tears came, and she could not stop them. Ekaterina Gordeeva had held herself together for most of this longest day of her life at the end of the longest week of her life-the performer doing her job, making other people feel at ease, no matter how bad she felt inside-but at the end there would be no control. The tears came at Vagankovsky Cemetery last Saturday. The death of 28-year-old Sergei Grinkov was the final chapter in one of sport’s great romances.
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