Figure skating - Volvo Cup Riga 2013
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Thursday, November 7 will open the twenty-second edition of the Volvo Cup in Riga, the second-level event which will see the starting line also Evgeni Plushenko.
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The Russian champions, thirty-one from a few days, will be returned to face a competitive race after retiring at the end of the short program of the last European Championships. From that 24 January, more than nine months have passed during which Plushenko has slowly taken over by a delicate back surgery occurred exactly one week later.
For the seven-time European champion, the race in Latvia will be an important test before facing the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow, the last leg of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating scheduled between 22 and 24 November.
'' The occasion will be, however, a good opportunity for him to get the trivial technical scores mimi (25 for the short-program and 45 for free), key to the'' Olympic eligibility.
In Riga, the'' student of Alexei Mishin will test for the first time in front of the judges panel and the new programs of the race, yet choreographed by David Avdish trusted. As for the short fall on the ice on the song "Taka jak ty", a song of the Ukrainian group Okean Elzy, unpublished in skating. For the free, however, it was decided to present a medley of music by some successful programs of the past (The Godfather, Tosca, Adagio, Tango Amore). It will be a tribute to the career of srota which will trace the racing history of one of the most successful skaters in history.
Archived The competitions of November, Plushenko should take part in the National Championships, which will be held again this year at the'''' Iceberg Palace in Sochi (23/29 December) and, thereafter, at the European Championships in Budapest (13 / January 19). Just in the Hungarian capital, in'' now back in February, 2004, he was defeated by Frenchman Brian Joubert, then little more than nineteen, in the ninety-sixth edition of the continental event.
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