by cekoni » 26 Feb 2011, 21:16
cekoni wrote: http://www.championat.ru/other/news-744487.html
Плющенко: в качестве талисмана Игр в Сочи мне нравится дельфин
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Plushenko: as a mascot of the Games in Sochi, I like the dolphin
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by Phrazey » 28 Feb 2011, 12:56
Natural talent oozes from his every pore. And once Evgeny Plushenko gained the maturity to know how to use it, he became one of the most decorated men in skating history.
Plushenko started elite competition at such a young age - winning a 1998 world championship bronze medal when he was just 15 years old - that he is one of the only skaters in the modern era to be ranked as the favourite, or co-favourite, at two different Olympics. He won silver in 2002 at Salt Lake, behind long time club, national, and international rival Alexei Yagudin, and then won gold at Turin in 2006, a men's event that was more coronation than competition as Plushenko skated without equal. He became only the fourth male skater ever to win an Olympic championship who also medaled in another Games.
His resume overflows with medals, mostly gold. To go along with his Olympic gold and silver medals*, Plushenko has three gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal at the World Championships, five** golds and three silvers at the European Championships and five golds, three silvers, and one bronze at the Grand Prix Final - all before his 24th birthday. Seven times he won the difficult Russian Championships, missing a string of eight straight only because he skipped the 2003 Nationals with an injury.
Guided by the colourful and politically savvy coach Alexei Mishin, Plushenko became the master of skating's bold statement. His jumps and spins were big and dramatic and approached with unapologetic flair. His artistic side, which at first leaned heavily toward classical, broadened to include humour and pathos as he became more confident and as he was no longer the youngest puppy in the pack.
Plushenko is the third-youngest men's world champion in figure skating history, taking the 2001 title in Vancouver four months after his 18th birthday. He has almost always been the youngest, and - thanks to his extraorddinary timing and flexibility, and the power built by an early skating coach who was a weight lifter - almost always the best.
Growing up in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, he landed his first triple jump when he was just seven, and had mastered all six triples by the age of 13. By then he was living in St. Petersburg training with Yagudin, and 1994 Olympic champion Alexei Urmanov. The economic and political wreckage of the old Soviet Union had forced the closing of the Volgograd arena (it reopened as a car dealership), so Plushenko's parents put him on a train for St. Petersburg. His mother joined him later, but they were so poor that Mishin, his coach, had to pay most of their rent for a tiny apartment they shared with another family.
Mishin, one of the great wisecracking storytellers in skating, loves to describe 11-year-old Plushenko's arrival at the famed Yubileyny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg: "He looked like a cheap chicken, very green and very blue and no fat .... very ecological!"
But beneath Plushenko's rawness, Mishin, like everyone else, saw a vast reservoir of uncommon gifts. Plushenko was a fearless jumper, but he also had an artistic sensibility and long elegant limbs. And there rarely has been a male skater with such flexibility. Plushenko had seen a young female skater in Volgograd do the back-wrenching Biellmann spin and wanted to try it. In a Biellmann spin, a skater reaches back and grabs the skate of an extended leg and brings it as far up in the air, behind the back, as it will go. Improper use can lead to back problems and Plushenko's mother allowed him to perform it only after he promised that he would practice the proper technique, every day. He got so good at the spin that he could do it rotating in either direction, and became the first man in the world to perform it in competition. He made it his signature artistic move.
His other signature moves were his outrageous jumps. By the time Plushenko arrived on the elite stage, most of the major triple- and quadruple-jump milestones had been reached, so he worked on doing the jumps higher and more dramatically, and later on refining combinations.
When he was 16, he stunned the audience at Japan's NHK Trophy competition with the world's first quad-triple-double combination (toe loop/toe loop/loop), and a nine-rotation monster he would go on to land successfully more than two dozen times. In 2002, he trumped himself by turning the double loop part of the combination into a triple, for the world's first quad-triple-triple.
At the 2001 Worlds in Vancouver, he landed a four-jump string of quadruple toe loop, triple toe loop, and two double loops to loudly punctuate a victory which was already his.
At a gala exhibition in 2005, he landed a triple-triple-triple-double conbination and then went overboard during an exhibition at the Europeans, combining two triple jumps with a string of four double jumps - a dizzying 14 successive rotations.***
In his earliest years on the world stage, Plushenko was an unrefined leaper capable of bad decisions during competition. Named to the Russian team for the 1998 World Championships when Ilia Kulik withdrew after his Olympic victory, he fell on an opening quad, panicked and rewrote his entire program, racing down to the other end for an unplanned quad, which was also a failure. It was a weak field, though, and he finished third in that world debut. Two years later at Nice, he was enjoying an unbeatable season but, on the verge of winning his first Worlds, imploded in the free skate and finished fourth.
But he learned quickly and began trusting his artistic strengths to carry him when the jumps weren't quite perfect. He received his first perfect 6.0 mark when he was 16, the youngest ever for a man, and by the time the old system was mothballed after the 2003-04 season, Plushenko had amassed 75 perfect 6.0s, including the last four given out to a male competitor at the Worlds (2004, for free skating presentation).
And after a groin injury, and subsequent surgery, kept him out of the 2005 World Championships and Grand Prix final, he blew the field away at the 2006 Olympics, setting new points records in both segments of the competition and taking the gold by an unworldly 27-point margin over rising star Stephane Lambiel.
While he stopped competing after his Olympic win to rest the knees which had been battered by thousands of powerful takeoffs and landings, Plushenko has often threatened a return to eligible skating, both to quench his competitive thirst and to boost declining Russian fortunes in the men's division.
He is a hero in Russia, largely for his spectacular track record, but also because, like Irina Slutskaya, he did not leave for greener pastures during the country's rudderless period.
"I couldn't," he explained. "Russia is home."
by Дарина » 01 Mar 2011, 00:14
won gold at Turin in 2006, a men's event that was more coronation than competition as Plushenko skated without equal
выиграл золото в Турине в 2006 на соревнованиях, которые были скорее коронацией, чем состязаниями, так как Плющенко не было равных
by cekoni » 01 Mar 2011, 01:03
by Дарина » 01 Mar 2011, 02:07
Только сегодня я вернулся из Новогорска. Сейчас мы ставим программы вместе с Александром Жулиным и его помощником Игорем Оршуляком.
by cekoni » 01 Mar 2011, 05:07
cekoni wrote: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2011/02/28/Evgen ... chi-190647
28 февраля 2011, 18:17
Евгений Плющенко: «Планирую завершить спортивную карьеру после Сочи»
Евгений Плющенко ждет решения Международного союза конькобежцев о возвращении ему статуса спортсмена-любителя и планирует завершить любительскую карьеру после Олимпийских игр-2014 в Сочи.
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by Jia Jia » 01 Mar 2011, 09:51
simona wrote:
Phrazey & cekoni,
Can't wait to see his new
programmes!
by Ирина » 01 Mar 2011, 11:53
Но четверной сальхов 
пару раз попал в кадр 
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