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After months of speculation in various ways about the future and the possibility & agrave; of returning to racing, Evgeni Plushenko met yesterday the Russian media to illustrate specifically the situation.
Thursday 15 October 2015 9 minutes reading time
The champion of St. Petersburg, now close to thirty-three & egrave; springs, did not hide the 'intention of returning to racing and, in particular, to take part in the next edition of the Olympic Games, but at the same time hinted that everything will depend & agrave; state of health and the possibilities & agrave; to come back to have a level of competitiveness & agrave; in his opinion adequate.
& Ldquo; I spent a good part of & rsquo; summer in Japan and I got to train with Yuzuru Hanyu, I think l & rsquo; better athlete in business & agrave ;. His & egrave; can run safely quadruple toe loop, quadruple and quadruple salchow Rittberger. In addition, he is also working on quad lutz. I myself had started working on quadruple lutz, salchow and Rittberger, but his back forced me to stop every attempt. For this reason, come back and compete today would not make sense.
My goal and my dream & egrave; participate in its fifth Olympics. Nobody in there skating & egrave; He never succeeded. I would like to try it, as long as my health permits. Recently, there have been subjected to a stabilization surgery of the spine. Now I feel good, but doctors have advised me to overload your back and try to make four rotations. So to find the ideal form, I will only do three laps and a half, transitional passages, step sequences, etc & hellip; Is not serious; he's lying on the couch. I keep training every day also subjecting to physiotherapy and medical practices applicable. Respect, however, a new back surgery everything & egrave; can, but now I do not feel the need & agrave ;. In any case, if it were, bisogner & agrave; evaluate with attentions recovery times. My coach & egrave; Alexei Mishin always and continue to collaborate with the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Basically, my team not & egrave; changed. At the moment, between Moscow and St. Petersburg, we are preparing new programs of the race, which will be very interesting because I want to change the & rsquo; image that so far have given me. I'll try & ograve; of modernizzarmi order to be competitive in the face of the athletes more & ugrave; young people. & nbsp; At the same time, I'm focusing on the numbers for the Tour (Snow King 2), that partir & agrave; in Tallinn in the second half & agrave; December. In the Tour presneter & ograve; Also my new programs because of race & eacute ;, addition to want to test, I want to understand the public reaction.
In summary, my preparation & egrave; long-term. To participate in the Olympics I can count on the full integrity & agrave; physical, I have to be fit and I can skate new programs with new elements of jump. Do not take & ograve; part in competitions of this season because & eacute; the physical problems I was not allowed to prepare new quad. I am well aware of this situation and consentitemelo, I must not try anyone what I can or can not do. I remember how in a few credesserero in me before the Olympics in 2010. Nobody believed that after a long break I could go skating on the levels of the past, the same thing & egrave; which took place in 2014.
I read about some company that I would be an obstacle to young people or that Plushenko would not want to leave room for the young, but not & egrave; and so in this respect I would like to make some clarifications.
I never had any pressure on the Fed. I think that our young people are growing and some are beginning to do the quadruple jumps. However, they must demonstrate that they can achieve better results. Who & egrave; blame if they stay between the tenth and sixteenth in the standings? This is not to say that I mad at & rsquo; have with our federation. At the same time, I would like to compliment Konstanin Menshov, who recently won a competition in Finland, but, as I see it, with Yuzuru Hanyu, Patrick Chan and Denis Ten will & agrave; hard to compete. These are athletes of international caliber. They know how to perform quadruple, have charisma, are virtuosos of skating and are in possession of something more & ugrave ;.
In future I would like to create a skating school in Russia. Moscow, St. Petersburg or elsewhere makes no difference. In recent times, I have declined job offers from other countries, including one of Japan and China, which had offered to coach the men's national team. Leave Russia is not one of my intentions. I want to stay here to train one day our children.
Halfway & agrave; January will participate & ograve; a sort of competition-exhibition in Japan, where I was invited by & rsquo; ISU (Medal Winners Open, to be held in Osaka). Sar & agrave ;, my only competitive engagement of the season.
I would like to take advantage of & rsquo; opportunity to greet my fans and journalists who understand really skating. I thank you all and write the truth & agrave; ".
During the press conference & egrave; He intervened Yana Rudovskaya, wife and manager of Plushenko, who provided various information about the & rsquo; upcoming tour "Snow King 2". They are, however, leaked the names of some of the many stars who will be involved. From what we & egrave; learned, there will Slutskaja Irina, Brian Joubert, Johnny Weir and Tomas Verner.
In the end, you & egrave; also spoke of the many initiatives of charity, they see from time Plushenko at the forefront.
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