Oksana Grischuk - figure skater, who, speaking inpair skating with Yevgeny Platov, twice became the Olympic champion. Such a success on the ice has not yet been able to repeat a single Russian couple. So, Oksana Grischuk. The biography of this athlete is ups and downs, victories and defeats, happiness and despair ...
Way to success
The future star of figure skating was born in 1972year Her mother, Lyudmila Rokhbek, was an engineer-economist, and her father, Vladimir Grischuk, was a football player. Unfortunately, the happy family has broken up. A year after the birth of his daughter, his father abandoned them.
Оксана Грищук впервые стала на лед, когда ей было just four years. Her mother dreamed that her daughter was a figure skater, so she seriously approached her daughter's preparation. The first coach of Oksana was Valentina Kasyanova, in whom the girl trained as a single. The start to the beginning of the sports career was an invitation to the anniversary evening of Leonid Brezhnev. The Secretary General noted the talent of a ten year old skater. So, Oksana was assigned to Dynamo Moscow School to continue his career.
At the age of twelve, Oksana joined the group onsports dance to coach Natalia Linichuk. The first partner Grischuk became Alexander Chichkov. Together with Sasha, they won more than one award among juniors. So, in 1988, the pair won the youth world championship. However, during the tournament, Alexander was injured and could not continue his career. In the summer of 1989, the couple broke up. So Oksana Grischuk received a new partner - Evgenia Platova.
Lucky duet
It was Evgeny Platov who became Oksana the partner with whom she achieved her highest awards and sporting achievements.
So, the pair rolled up so quickly that alreadythree months after the start of training she won a bronze medal at the USSR Championship. However, this was only the beginning. They were not going to give up and dreamed of the highest step of the pedestal. And in 1991 they did it - Oksana Grischuk and Yevgeny Platov won their first gold in the national championship. The next goal was Olympic gold.
At her first Olympiad in 1992, Oksana andEugene took fourth place. Then there were bronze medals in the world and European championships. At this time, the pair trained by Karponosov and Linichuk. Two years of continuous training, as well as self-confidence and unshakable will to win did their job: at the 1994 games in Lillehammer, Platov and Grischuk became champions!
А в 1998 году в Нагано они повторили свой успех, becoming a two-time Olympic champions. For this achievement, they even got into the Guinness record book. After all, no one before them did anything of the kind, and even today I could not repeat this.
Crazy Love
However, despite the success and high sportsthe level reached by Oksana Grischuk, her personal life did not develop. Because of the constant training, she even had no time for anything. But love always comes unexpectedly ...
И ее избранником стал Александр Жулин – ее colleague and rival at the same time. He, like Grischuk herself, danced on the ice with his partner Maya Usova. And dreamed of Olympic gold. The feelings that Oksana felt for Alexander Zhulin were like madness. She wanted to be with him constantly. But he was married, they met in secret. However, their novel was still known to coaches, colleagues ...
According to Oksana herself, Zhulin told her thatmust divorce his wife, with whom he lives solely for the sake of the sports image and the press. And he promised the girl that he would declare divorce to everyone, as well as the relationship that exists between them, only after Oksana quit the sport. And the figure skater in love hung her skates on a nail. This happened shortly before the Olympics. Unfortunately, later Oksana Grischuk found out that her lover preferred another - to a very young figure skater Tanya Navka. The offended and offended girl returned to the sport again. And along with Zhenya Platov won gold, while Zhulin and her partner were only second.
Prince of Monaco and figure skater Oksana Grischuk
Photos of this couple often appeared in print. Grischuk herself admitted that at first she considered Prince Albert only a friend, but he showed perseverance, and she yielded.
They met in the Olympic village in Nagano.Prince of Monaco took part in the bobsled race. At first, they were simply friends, but in 2000, Oksana and Albert started a serious romance. The couple all the time appeared together at the royal receptions in Monaco, on the Bill Gates yacht, and on various secular parties. Albert even introduced Oksana to his father, the king of Monaco. However, the wedding of this novel is not over. During a tour of America, Oksana met her new love - fitness instructor Jeff.
Daughter
Oksana and Jeff began to live together.And in the spring of 2002, Grischuk found out that she was pregnant. However, lovers were in no hurry to register their relationship. Oksana considers her little daughter to be a miracle. And for good reason. The child was born, and this even despite the fact that the woman had an abortion!
Her daughter Oksana Grischuk called Skyler Grace.The name Skyler means “heavenly”, and the name Grace, meaning “grace,” was given to the girl in honor of the Prince of Monaco’s mother, actress Grace Kelly. A couple of months after the birth of his daughter, Jeff left Oksana and disappeared in an unknown direction.
Life after sport
After retiring from the sport, Oksana Grischuk founded the Academy of Figure Skating, where she trains young athletes.
In 2006, she took part in the First Channel show “Dancing on Ice”, where her partner was Peter Krasilov. Their duo took first place.
In 2007, Oksana was invited to participate in the continuation of "Dancing on Ice". And the figure skater gave her consent. This time her partner was Peter Dranga. And again Oksana was in favorites - the third place.
Oksana Grischuk and her daughter live in California. A woman trains young figure skaters and dreams that she will meet such a man with whom she will be happy.
