What could be more difficult for an Olympic athletes such as the right to compete following the death of a loved one?
It 'difficult to image.
However, there are Canadian figure skater Joanne Rochette, dying next to the discomfort of the mother for the exercise of its software on Tuesday night in Vancouver.
Therese Rochette, 55, suffered a broken heart and died Sunday morning to travel to the right of Quebec to watch Olympic second daughter.
"Mom," said the right RochetteAfter their short overall.
As touching as the scene was not specifically for the Olympic Games a sporting event so often transcends sport.
Here is one, back again, as some of the most exciting game stories:
* Chris Klug in 1993 with primary sclerosing cholangitis, a rare degenerative disease of the liver that an individual diagnosed in 10,000 impacts. Immediately after finishing sixth in 1998 in video games in Nagano, the AmericanSnowboarder on the monitor appeared to get a medal in the video games of 2002. But in 2000, its salutary to deteriorate rapidly.
'It is like if someone stuck a dagger in my hand felt, "he told the Rocky Mountain News from discomfort in his role.
Urgent need for transplant, Klug underwent risky surgery fading possibility this year of competing again soon. However, he continued a bronze in Salt Lake to win and started to be an advocate for organ donors.Profile of the day: the mother of a man whose death Klug comes with a new liver - more than a second chance.
* Jack Shea won two golds in speed skating from 1932 Lake Placid. Jim Shea was a member of a team of America's cross country at the 1964 Innsbruck Games. Jim Shea Jr. won the 2002 Salt Lake Games , by Shea loved ones with the first three generations of Winter Olympians.
In strikingThe total power Utah, Shea won the first ever for a jewel of American men into the skeleton. He touched the nation in a deeper way, however, when he arrived in his helmet, took a photo of his grandfather and held as a tribute.
Jack Shea died before 17 days.
* American speed skater Dan Jansen arrived in Calgary in 1998 games as a threat, a gold medal in each of the 501, 000 meters. On the eve of his first race, he learnedhis sister, Jane, had died after a long illness.
Jansen slipped and fell in the 500 meters left, the video games part of the funeral and return to Him, 000 € 's. He slipped and fell again.
Four years after many of Albertville, finished out of the fund.
E 'come down to the 1994 games.
Inside the 500, Jansen slipped and added eight. About the second amendment-to-last in his last Olympic race, resembled a warehousemanage. Now after all his troubles, but eventually Jansen has done, the finish line with one coin and jewelry world in record time. During his victory lap he held his young daughter is selected and brought them close to the rink. Her name was Jane, died shortly after his sister.
* United States, jewelry regular inspiration for the stories will probably always the Miracle on Ice, the day in Lake Placid in 1980, when a group of youths beat collegeequipment unbeatable Soviet Union and went on to win jewelry.
But another second single might be at hand. Rochette is in third position as the long-term development of the past and win in the placement of jewelry.
The first competition on Tuesday, said two-time Canadian silver medalist Elvis Stokjo direction of the Telegraph UK about Rochette.
"Magic is consumed not get materials, but of spiritual enlightenment. Follows, Rochettereally able to win the medal jewelry,''she said.
