That's what my parents'death taught me.

May he R.I.P.

I'm so very sorry for your incomprehensible loss. Take care of yourself and have your genetics done for this type of heart disease. God bless you Mikey.

My cousin just recently had the widow maker heart attack, survived luckily. He’s 45, my brother’s age.

RIP to your brother. Gone way too young

I remember the 90s all I did was watch figure skating. These 2 were my favorite pair both beautiful. What a love story.

My fav also. I totally agree - he was magnificent. What a love story.

I totally agree G & G was the best of all time! Sergei was an incredible athlete and skater, he is still missed to this day!

The pain of loosing someone so talented so young so handsome is heartbreaking. At least he passed doing what he loved with his beautiful wife beside him. 28ys old and 28yrs have passed and the pain is still unbrarable. Thankfully we can still see them on UKposts. Skating with Mario Lanza singing is a double blessing. A statue of him would be magnificent never to be forgotten. 💙 💙 💋 💋 🎈 🎈

Exactly right!!!!!

I'm watching now again on UKposts,thank you.

I remember these pair. Wow hard to believe 25 years.

Young men, healthy and athletic, often suffer from cardiomyopathy. Without knowing anything about it....until it unfortunately takes them. I’m so sorry for your loss.

Yeah like those football players who suddenly die while playing.

I’m so sorry for your loss. My sister is 6 years younger than me and I would be devastated if I lost her. Life is not forever so enjoy every moment, every breath. Love those in your heart often and always. 🌺

I lost my oldest brother at the age of 48 in 2007 of a massive heart attack while out on a group wreck dive scuba diving 3 miles from shore on Lake Michigan (Chicago). Efforts to revive him failed and he was pronounced dead at Northwestern Hospital just before noon August 5, 2007. His last dive log entry the morning of his death was "light head". I also was the last person he spoke to 24 hrs earlier. All over the Chicago news. It was awful.

Też mi się tak wydaje, nie chciał zawieść Kati

My mother too 14 years ago. Always on my mind.

Me too, he had so many issues leading up to it. In Katia's book she said that first his back started to bother him so bad that they went to multiple doctors and still it never got treated, then his shoulder started to hurt a lot as well and again, they went to multiple doctors, also she said a nerve in his foot was being pinched and the nerve became so dead he couldn't even walk or run properly and couldn't get his foot into his boot. All of this occurred around the same time and I know athletes can have pains, especially ones that do lifting of any sorts but hearing that concerned me and i'm not even a doctor. while all this was happening they were still training ( only taking a short break after he was operated on ) and that he actually started to work out even more. Very sad, she also said ( before he died ) that she worried he would not take his health seriously enough ( its in her book somewhere towards the end ) because for him taking care of her and daria was the most important thing regardless of how he was feeling

Did they look the same in person?

True. The back pain he was feeling 5 months until his death could be angina.

Did they find out the cause of death? Truly heartbreaking. Sorry for your loss

That's how I was at my moms funeral 😔 i was just numb....couldn't cry.....

There are other pics of her crying at the funeral

🥺

William Diemert : Sammy Davis, Jr died from throat cancer.

Dale Earnhardt died in a crash at the Daytona 500.

@@mikegordon8178 he had a heart attack in race car during the 2001 Dayton 500

Really?

For 5 months, he kept on complaining about his back pain that he went to several doctors for consultation and even treatement. But he was misdiagnosed. Maybe for a young athlete who was in great shape, heart disease would be the last thing in mind. It was later found out through posthumous tests that it was due to genetic condition. He had a gene variant that causes blood clots and predisposed him to early-onset heart attacks. :(

You are correct. In fact, the first possibility you mentioned was what the doctors in the US found out in the autopsy and and upon further study of his blood sample.

😡

It was too late. He was essentially dead when he hit the ice. His main coronary artery was totally occluded!!! This kind of heart attack is called a "widow-maker" since it kills the muscle of the whole front of the heart, which equals no oxygen to the brain!

His autopsy was done in the US. Even his blood samples were studied there, and doctors discovered that his clogged arteries was due to a genetic defect. There was no drugs found in his system.

In a comment above, Johns-Hopkins Hospital tested his blood 2 months after he died and found that he had a defective gene which made platelets stick together more easily. He was literally born to die. The only way to catch this early would have been an Echocardiogram(ultrasound of the heart). There was no reason to do one at his age. Maybe when he was about 40 since his father died at age 52.

@@barbrn Thanks for the information. Really helps a lot to at least understand Sergei's case in layman's term.

@@martheresa7550 You're welcome. 😇

Ekatarina remmarried with Ilia Kulik after and divorced later, the other daughter is his.....

Ekaterina has two daughters (w/ Sergei and Ilia Kulik) and one step son (w/ David Pelletier.) Sergei had one daughter.

Perhaps because he was on the ice.