Ekaterina is a famous skater. She1the activity of skating at the age of 4. Since then, she has been devoted to one career that drives her life and2beauty, and romance into lives of millions of others.
When she was 11, she found a3partner, Sergei Grinkov, 15 years old then, with whom she could perform that activity in the most expressive, most elegant way. They were the most winning pair skaters on the ice in every way: The tiny fragile Ekaterina, in the4of her tall, strong, handsome partner, lovingly launched into the5, tenderly caught, and beautifully skatedaround the ice.
Gradually, the two of them6together into a dream couple and the most beautiful kind of loving relationship. When she was 19, she married him. They had a daughter, a charming girl they both loved and protected. And then,7in 1995, during a routine practice session, her mate, her love, her partner, Sergei Grinkov, stopped, fell and died of a heart attack at 28.
Ekaterina's world seemed to end. It was her mum who lit her8to start remaking her life by saying "Little Dasha, having lost a father, needs at least a healthy mother." This reminded her to ask a friend to send her9which had been left in the corner for a long time. Later she said in her book10is the only thing that can help people recover.'' In February 1996, Ekaterina skated a moving tribute (悼念) to Sergei, which she11to the music of Mahler's Symphony No.5, the couple's favorite. She was12at the beginning, because it had been a long time since she had skated alone. And she was afraid of the13the piece would recall. But that night, she did it. She filled up the14with her courage.
No one who saw Ekaterina's that night would forget her performance, just as she would never forget Sergei. But everyone was already learning, as she already learned, that15“goodbye” was the beginning of her new life.
