

I’d like to live in a world where tomorrow would be yesterday, the day after tomorrow two days ago, and so on, because now I have little interest in the future.” In her book, Gordeeva writes that she would “like to live my life over again backward. Just have one day to remember Sergei again.” “It’s very, very important to have this anniversary, to share these feelings.

Because for everyone on the ice, this was the saddest day last year. We’re going to go and stay on the ice and we’re going to ask a priest to read a little prayer on the ice. Gordeeva said “everyone” from the cast of Stars on Ice “is going to be there on the 20th. Even if I have a choice between there and Moscow. I just think that I’m supposed to be there on this date. “I mean, I would have come back there anyway. “I’m actually very happy to go back there,” she said last week. Rehearsal could have been held at any number of sites in the New England area, but when tour director Byron Allen approached Gordeeva with the idea of returning to Lake Placid, she quickly approved. Swift, was released earlier this month and, according to a Warner Books publicist, will top the New York Times bestseller list this Sunday.Īfter finishing a brief publicity tour for the book, Gordeeva is back in Lake Placid, preparing for the 1996-97 Stars on Ice season. The book, titled “My Sergei: A Love Story,” written with E.M.

In February, she and the Stars on Ice ensemble performed a tribute to Grinkov in Hartford, the preparation for which left her “absolutely crazy and so nervous for two months.”Īnd in March, she began writing a book about her life with Grinkov as therapy-”part of the healing process,” she calls it. She joined the professional Stars on Ice tour, largely to maintain the company of close friends Scott Hamilton and Victor Petrenko. In January, she resumed skating, singles skating, which she hadn’t attempted in 15 years.

Gordeeva looked away and smiled wistfully.
