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Michael Winship: Skating, living, dying on thin ice
One of the curiosities of life in the freelance scrivener's trade is that you find yourself in the oddest places, writing about the oddest things. Over some 25 years, I've taken assignments writing television shows about everything from grizzly bears to defense policy.
I've scripted remarks for a president of the United States. On the other hand, I'm the guy who wrote a video called "Haircuts at Home."
Along the way, I also accidentally became a de facto, semi-expert on Olympic figure skating, despite ankles with the tensile strength of overcooked macaroni and a tendency toward the sniffles.
That's because a decade ago, out of the blue, I was hired to write a TV movie based on a best seller called "My Sergei," a memoir by the skater Ekaterina Gordeeva about her life and career with skating partner and husband Sergei Grinkov.
Subsequently, I co-produced a two-hour special on the American women skaters who have won Olympic gold medals and now I'm working on a treatment for a film about the horrendous 1961 Brussels jetliner crash that wiped out the American figure skating team as it headed for that year's world championships.
As I've interviewed people who knew the young victims, two ideas have come up time and again. One,
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Gordeeva, Ekaterina
1971-
Russian figure skater
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Gordeeva, Ekaterina 1971-
PERSONAL: Born 1971, in USSR (now Russia); daughter of Alexander and Elena Gordeeva; married Sergei Grinkov (a figure skater; died, 1995), April, 1991; married Ilia Kulik (a figure skater), June 10, 2002; children: (first marriage) Daria, (second marriage) Elizaveta.
ADDRESSES: Home—Los Angeles, CA. Agent—Author's Mail, Warner Books, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
CAREER: Figure skater. Narrator for videocassette Three Cheers for Catherine the Great!, 2001.
AWARDS, HONORS: First Place award, World Figure Skating Championships, 1986, 1987, 1989, and 1990, for pairs figure skating; Gold Medal, Olympic Games, 1988 and 1994, for pairs figure skating.
WRITINGS:
(With E. M. Swift) My Sergei: A Love Story, Warner Books (New York, NY), 1996.
(With Antonina W. Bouis) A Letter for Daria, Little, Brown (Boston), 1998.
SIDELIGHTS:Ekaterina Gordeeva is an Olympic champion figure skater who has chronicled her life's darkest hour in two different books. Gordeeva lost her first husband and skating partner, Sergei Grinkov, in 1995 when he collapsed and died on the ice during a practice session. Gordeeva's books My Sergei: A Love Story and A Letter for Daria both recount her love affair with Grinkov and her despair at hi