CT Olympic skating star’s best friend to give Courant readers insider’s look with diary from Italy

CT Olympic skating star’s best friend to give Courant readers insider’s look with diary from Italy

Daniel Petrenko was 3 years old when he saw Maxim Naumov for the first time. Their first meeting occurred in Hartford Hospital, the day Maxim was born to Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, former Olympic pairs skaters who were coaches at the International Skating Center of Connecticut in Simsbury. “We went to see Genia when she had Max,” Daniel’s mother Elena Petrenko said last month. “Daniel is three years older. Daniel looked, he had big eyes…