Answer: no one

Camilla K at 28 years old, no one expected anything like that and being an athlete, a pairs skater, back/shoulder pain is common. And if you read her book My Sergei, his back issues were his back. He would have his foot go numb even. I was 14 when he died and couldn’t believe it myself and yes you asked why and how. I still ask why and how.

As tragic as it is, no 28-year-old goes to the doctor for a test to see if their arteries are blocked. Everyone would naturally assume that Sergei was in far better health and had much longer to live than his overweight father who died at 55. I doubt any Olympic skater today would be thinking about his heart. That said, he was visiting a lot of doctors and an astute doctor might have gotten an idea that something else was wrong, especially if the doctor knew about his father’s four heart attacks. The language barrier, unease with the American health system, and his stoicism almost certainly played a role. Is he going to go to an elite doctor in Connecticut or Lake Placid and complain that he’s out of breath? No. Would a doctor even understand what that meant, coming from an Olympic athlete in perfect shape? No. People are and were trained to treat heart attacks in athletes like runners and basketball players and “manly” sports like that, so it probably also hurt that he was a figure skater, in a foreign country. No one looked for it.

B C congenital heart defect caused his death. It was missed in Russia too

i agree, there was an interview in russian where sergei said that it was time for them to rest and that maybe they should coach. However they kept skating because katia wanted to. even in her book katia said sergei was suffering a lot and at times he didnt want to skate anymore but they kept skating. katia said herself as well in her book that shes a skater first before anything else. they should have rested but for her, work and skating was the most important thing.

@@ravenel2 Well said. :( But he actually went and saw several doctors but his coronary artery disease was undiagnosed. For a 28 year old Olympian who looked fit, heart disease was probably the last thing on the doctors' minds. Sergei also apparently didn't show symptoms aside from the constant back pain and that numb foot he had 6 months prior to his death. Athletes are used to pain and injuries, so those two signs he had could have been taken as the usual injuries athletes go through.

Сколько не смотри насладиться этим невозможно! Царствие небесное Сергею и здоровья Кате

😢 su corazón estaba crecido y empezaba a bloquearse sus arterias, amo tanto a Katia y a Daria que un corazón tan bello y con tanto amor no pudo ser contenido por su pecho, siempre pienso así y siemore deseo lo mejor para los tres.

Что за чушь несёте?

Katia is half - Jewish I think. Not sure about Sergei.

Kat K yes! So absolutely beautiful and technically sound. There will never be another pair like them....

i love that swing exit on their death spiral but it was deemed illegal which is why G&G took it out before the major competitions that season

Troy Turner their blades are silent....they just literally glide......you don’t hear a sound. No one else does it better..💞

maria pounds Such a tragic, agonizing loss....still to this day, I mourn his loss....and I mourn for Katia and for Daria. If you watch videos of Katia now, up close, her eyes don’t have that same light they had when her Sergei was alive. To lose the true love of your life? I don’t think anyone ever really comes back from that. Not when the love was like that of Sergei’s and Katia’s. Sure, life moves on, but now there’s forever a sadness where love used to live...😔💔

I used to fiercely defend her love for Ilya since of course she had the right to move on and be happy. Now that they are divorced, I can say, good riddance Ilya. You tend to gravitate towards men like your father and Katia’s father was a control freak, so I wonder. Sergei was perfect, but interestingly enough, Katia didn’t exactly go searching for Sergei for her partner. Her first marriage was really a lucky fluke of the Soviet skating system.