Tatiana Grigorieva engaged
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:08 pm
http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/hit ... 35268.html
Busy, busy Tatiana
EIGHT years ago, she was the Australia's darling of track and field, having just won silver at the Sydney Olympics but a lot has changed in the life of former pole vault star Tatiana Grigorieva. Well consider this: not only is she retired and divorced but these days lives in Queensland with her fiance, Plamen Milanov, studies Chinese medicine and acupuncture, accounting and law and has swapped pole vaulting for tennis, golf, surfing and yoga. All this while running the Caffe e Gelato Milany in Brisbane where (according to an interview she did with The Sunday Times in Britain last weekend) "we make 32 different flavours of ice cream". Phew!
Can I bring my pole?
TATIANA was also forthcoming about the famous tattoo of rose and thorns that adorns her stomach (some things in her life she couldn't change), describing it as "the yin and yang in my life, my masculine and feminine sides". At least the tattoos are a reminder of her great sporting days. Mind you, so are the memories of having to cart all those massive 4.6 metre-long poles from one country to another, especially the problems they caused her at airports. Tatiana told The Sunday Times: "I used to get all kinds of suggestions: 'Could you fold them in half? Can you send them by cargo?' There were times when I was prevented from flying because the aircraft couldn't fit them in the luggage hold."
Busy, busy Tatiana
EIGHT years ago, she was the Australia's darling of track and field, having just won silver at the Sydney Olympics but a lot has changed in the life of former pole vault star Tatiana Grigorieva. Well consider this: not only is she retired and divorced but these days lives in Queensland with her fiance, Plamen Milanov, studies Chinese medicine and acupuncture, accounting and law and has swapped pole vaulting for tennis, golf, surfing and yoga. All this while running the Caffe e Gelato Milany in Brisbane where (according to an interview she did with The Sunday Times in Britain last weekend) "we make 32 different flavours of ice cream". Phew!
Can I bring my pole?
TATIANA was also forthcoming about the famous tattoo of rose and thorns that adorns her stomach (some things in her life she couldn't change), describing it as "the yin and yang in my life, my masculine and feminine sides". At least the tattoos are a reminder of her great sporting days. Mind you, so are the memories of having to cart all those massive 4.6 metre-long poles from one country to another, especially the problems they caused her at airports. Tatiana told The Sunday Times: "I used to get all kinds of suggestions: 'Could you fold them in half? Can you send them by cargo?' There were times when I was prevented from flying because the aircraft couldn't fit them in the luggage hold."