Meeting the Russian team at the Sheremetievo airport
...Somewhere close to my ear I heard:
- There is Katia. There she is. People, take the child...
I looked behind me. A pretty young girl was handing over a child through the stretched up hands of people. From the other side Katia Gordeeva's hands were stretching to the little girl:
- I'll show her to Serezha. We missed her!..
The pretty girl and I got out from the crowd:
- Are you the sister of Katia Gordeeva? You both look alike...
- Yes. I brought their daughter to congratulate them. They missed her a lot there.
- Did you expect them to win after their return to the amateur sport?
- I think everything was as usual. Like in Calgary, like during the World championships. We got used to worrying about them. We got used to their strength and ability to win...
The crowd got more loud:
- Dashenka, where is your daddy? Show us your daddy...
And the experienced fan Dasha, who is a little more than a year old, sought out somebody in the crowd of people and stretched her hands to her beautiful dad, now two-time Olympic champion Sergei Grinkov...
Daria Srebnitskaya. Copyright by © 1994 Soviet Sport
Special thanks to Oksana Volikova for this article.