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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live near one of the top figure skating training facilities in the US and have met a few former skaters who have kids in school or activities with my kids. The ones who have daughters don’t have them in figure skating—they skate for fun, but none of the former skaters feel that it was a positive experience to have grown up in that environment. One was a pairs skater and while I don’t know her well enough for details, I’ve heard her state that the relationship she had with her partner was abusive. [/quote]

I too know many of the past Olympic skating medalists and the truth of the matter is that the reason "most" of them don't have kids in competitive skating is that Olympic caliber-talent and motivation simply doesn't reoccur consistently through generations.  A child who has the drive and talent to skate competitively will rocket through recreational skating.  A child that doesn't will be content to skate for fun.  Olympic medalist parents know that very well so when they see their children don't have what it takes, they don't push them to where they have no business being.

Someone upthread mentioned [b]Katia Gordeeva, [/b]the finest pair skater that ever lived, some say, twice Olympic champion, four times World champion. She has two daughters with not one but two different Olympic champion skaters - one with her late husband Sergei Grinkov, the other with singles men champion Ilya Kulik. If you could breed children for competitive skating, you couldn't ask for a better set of genes - both parents are Olympic champions!

Both girls grew up on the ice as can be expected, skating in shows and being adorable.  The older one was not interested in skating competitively so left it alone. The younger one is slowly advancing through the ranks but is hardly a prodigy. I suspect she will maybe make it US Nationals but no more.  The combination of major talent and drive to succeed is just too rare, and results don't happen without both of these things. [/quote]

I hope that she is doing well - I hate how her first husband died so young. [/quote]

She seems to be! She joined the skating shows when professional skating was still popular. She's done some commenting, some coaching, and is generally still a revered and beloved figure in the sport. And yes, married to Ilya Kulik, a superstar in his own right. It was horrible, an awful tragedy when Sergei died so young.

What's interesting is that one of the people training with him at the time, Albertville silver medalist Paul Wylie, went through his own heart scare a few years later--collapsed while training for a run and very nearly died. But he has gotten back to good health, thankfully.[b] It's just crazy that these lifelong athletes who eat so well and get so much great exercise are just as vulnerable as the rest of us in many ways. [/b][/quote]

It’s scary.[/quote]

He died of an enlarged heart.  No amount of diet or exercise can fix that.  The only solution is a heart transplant.

I loved watching them skate.

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A heart transplant? Sometimes an enlarged heart is a temporary effect from a virus. [/quote]

https://www.healthxchange.sg/heart-lungs/heart-disease/viral-myocarditis-virus-heart[/quote]

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