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BREAKING NEWS - One of the biggest stars of this expected Russian edition of the Winter Olympics, Evgeni Plushenko, has just retired from the race of the men's short program, only chance to go to the final and the fight for the podium.
Thursday 13 February 2014 2 minutes reading time
During heating, the skater has in fact suffered from sharp pains in the back, despite continued in an attempt to try the triple axel, also successful, but often landed badly.
'' First in order of descent of the group, Plushenko spoke at length with his coach Alexei Mishin, and then appear before a referee of the race to communicate his decision to retire because of physical problems.
Thus ends the fourth Olympic adventure of this legend of figure skating, not without bitterness and, almost certainly, with much controversy'' in the immediate future. The Olympic champion in Turin had in fact expressed several times in recent months, the willingness to participate only in the team competition, eventually won by Russia, and not to the individual program. However, as stated by the president of the World Federation Fifty Ottavio at the European Championships, the partial participation is not provided for in Regulation Olympics.
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