We met Plushy last night!!!I wanted to open a new topic about european experience and photos and stuff but I cant , i will write here!!! Can you open one so Ceconi, Lila and I will write about our trip?
i want to say lots of stuff...
we went to see practice gala yesterday and all were doing the choreo, plush arrived 30 mins later(diva plushy
, i just love it
) and he tried to learn the steps and was goofing around with the guys, played with little boys there who were gathered around him in awe (you should see their face when he gave them autograph, lol
), spoke with the ladies
, then practiced his program last , then in the middle of run-through went in front of some russian people and waved (i suppose with irony, unless I m wrong and he was looking elsewhere, you ll see what i mean, i was frozen at that moment, he looked as dark as ever) , his practice was even more breathtaking than exhibition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi_9Nqf2IA0 I dont know if it is subconscious but skaters gather around him
, like he is the core player!
i want to say that I m shocked with evgeni's quality. He manages to surprise us everytime for the better. We spoke to him twice . One in front of the arena after the general rehearsal of gala.And one in hotel after. In the arena he was lost cause we were all around him talking alltogether
. He got inside the taxi. Then some other company of people took him out of taxi to get pictures!!!We also took some photos and promised he come back at hotel after gala. Which he did, he was one of the first to arrive there. He was with Ari. I think you need to know when to ask Evgeni for his time , and this is not before the end of gala. During competition most of people could not find him and to be honest we didnt search for him. You know he is not avalaible and he is competing
and we respected that. I just saw Yana one day and wished her good luck for the Lp.
In the afternoon we spoke to him and he was ultra happy. He saw the banners in the competition, and in gala only one banner was in the arena
, a plushy one saying
Go PLushy from greek fans (i swear, not me, lol), we had a lot of laugh cause Plush said "oh i saw this" and we said "hmm, the whole arena was looking at it"
. Still i think he is shy more than you would expect, looking down and says thank you all the time . I was wondering if he is the same person who exploded the arena with the Tango. When he stepped on the ice for Lp, Italians screamed MAMA MIA!!!!LOL! Rocking appearance, rocking costume, a BAM comeback for the centuries!!
It looks like he is from another planet.
Did I say new costumes go perfect with a gold medal?
The moment he hugged Lambiel on podium, just great! Lambiel fan Club cheered for him! And Russian Anthem is my fav
About the Sp: The way he finishes his Sp, we felt like a thunder killed us, I have no memory of the Sp cause i was anxious, but I remember the crowd went crazy and that moment that he stopped and looked the judges, like I M BACK!
I started laughing, he is the only one who can do this and get away!
Only "problem" i can think in Sp is the music in straight step sequence. Crowd started getting excited after the spin and started clapping but the music doesnt change rythme so they stopped. I hope they change this part a little. Is this Marton's arrangement?It sounds like the original piece of music.
We talked a little before photos, he said he feels his fans and enemies and talked about positive energy and good vibes. I joked cause too many women were expecting to photo with him, and i said "too many women around always"and he laughed. He didnt say NO to anyone. Then italians told him about Worlds and he said he wants to go to Torino, cause it is a circle, euros olympics and worlds there. We told him that health is first priority. I think there will be a video of this although we interrupted him lots of times! He is very nice person and so funny you get enthusiastic! I have no clue what of all these he listened cause it was noisy and with a bunch of people jumping around him, lol!
Then he saw the bracelet I wear that he had given to me last year and he said "oh you were my bracelet"", he asked if the others have one, and when they said no, he said wait and went to his room and came back to bring for all.
He needs support and I got shocked of how he asked it, he said he needs scream and support from his fans. From what I understood, Plush knows about this forum(
) on internet (not his official
) and what they say about him. It is the the "other" russian one. I dont believe he doesnt know all these forums dedicated to him,
italian,
english,
devotion,
korean forum, and if he takes a look at
youtube, 85.000 views of his videos for european championships on the first days
with mostly great comments for his comeback!!! 95% of skating community believe that he is the man to beat right now(even if they dont want to say it, if you go to some skating boards it looks like it ). And in the arena people went loud when he finished his program. They went loud for Lambiel also but honestly I didnt measure, I saw the King back on his throne, Europe welcomed him!
I know polyphony is welcomed and different opinions of course in a forum but if you see how he looked his face when speaking about enemies, your heart would be broken. For this man who has such will and power and made so many people happy and cry when he was on the podium, this stuff with russian forum has hurt him. I felt awful, Awful! It looked like he trained back to his comeback with bitter sentiments to prove them wrong. And I speak as much objective as I can now. He thinks russia fans have disappeared? Thats why in interview of the winner he said the best thing is that he saw russian flags for him? They were many MANY russian fans in audience, by the way! He didnt name any forum or anyone but it was clear he was referring to his ex forum that still brings his name, now joubert's one. But you see he needs people's good thoughts about him, he asked it blatantly. But In the arena people were great with him! I told him to check internet or listen to the crowd screaming but I dont know if he understood, it was a pandemonium in there. He said he will try for medal in Vancouver. I think he doesnt like to hear that he will win, although we did say it with the best of love, to assure him that we believe in him.
We gave him present a fluffy kitten that says
good luck plushy on its back to take it with him in Vancouver. And we wrote him a letter(lol, it is funny, it took us some hour) and in that letter we say that for us, no matter what happens in Olympics, he is already a champion again.
He signed the huge banners and I kid with him and said
this you ll take it to Vancouver also, dear god, he looked at the size (3x 2 meters long) and looked desperate, nevertheless he said thank you very much.LOL!I told him i joke and we gave him a very small sticker same as the banner.We wished him good luck. He was with us around 30 mins, or more maybe.
We talked also to Yana, she was very kind, came to talk to us, she is very supportive of Evgeni and and very interesting to talk too. And we spoke about many things, I think Plush is too upset from russian nonsense for no reason. Although i dont get honestly whats the use of having a huge russian flag of Joubert when Plush skates. But i wish he knew this was not the rule, people were very warm in arena, you can hear it from videos also.
It was like Plushy party this Europeans!
I just want him to do well and be happy, i dont care the result in Vancouver. It is a pleasure to see him back on competitive ice, have you listened to the eurosport commentary!!!Fantastic. Sp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e84MdoB2RJo , Lp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14gKSEJDYz8I also met the greek journalist who comments for greek tv and he was extatic that he saw plush on competition again and he said all commentators were talking about this comeback!