19.06.2009.
 Evgeni Plushenko: "For my family hunted lunatics"
 Correspondent "SE" is the Turin Olympic champion, who recently decided to return to the great sport to compete at the Games in Vancouver.
 NINE COINS
 For Plushenko we chased from morning to night. Remembering the famous movie "Catch me if you can." Evgeni and was glad to have us meet, with all thy soul, - but the circumstances, the circumstances...........
 Some "Yubileyniy" very early in the morning he was not found, although the ad on the wall announced the training session. Moscow cellular blocked, Petersburg numbers we did not have.
 To find these numbers was not so easy, but we managed. And we search for Plushenko at the other end of town - on Krestovsky Island, in the elite clinic. Where to get the conversation polite but brief: "This close to the restaurant "Russian fishing". Wait there, I will in half an hour ...".........
 - Let us on this day - that the health, Evgeni?
 - Cyst. Figure Skating Federation has entered into an agreement with the President's clinic on Krestovsky Island, specialists there stunning. They found it and cyst with a Greek walnut in the Achilles area. Made injection. Pity that the leg "land", right. As training with all the problems - will begin summer camps. First, in Estonia, then in Italy, Germany. Cyst - this is not the killer. Not meniscus. And it is not ligament. Everything will be fine.
 - Before you painfully perceived, when the training that is not kleilos. Screamed.
 - Nothing has changed. I can make when on the ice I can not go. " Getting nervous, yelling at himself - and this only confusing mood. Jan soothes. He said the same words that have always heard from my mother: "Do not be crazy. Calm down, peredohni - and next time everything will turn out."
 - A particularly joyful day since returning?
 - Once restored the triple Axel. But even happier was the day when the four met the cascade - three. In fact, three years, not jumping!
 - If there is no secret - why attempt it?
 - Attempt to have been a lot. Prior to that was not "clean" - prevented excess weight. Revenues up to 80 kilos!
 - This is the record?
 - For me - an absolute. Fighting a weight - 72 kg.
 - And now what?
 - 73. Another would be to shed a kilogram, but it's fine. Weight is already in full control, the Permanent Council with a dietician. This is what I want to say - finally a federation with the mind-based approach to training. Everyone who enters the Olympic team, may come to the clinic on Krestovsky, there is a remarkable rehabilitation center. First there was nothing similar.
 - Treated themselves?
 - Yeah. How it came to the clinic to the dentist, so I removed nerve alive. Without anesthesia. It is not even in pain, which was terrible - most importantly, do not feel the confidence of the federation, the attitude was wrong. Now everything is different.
 - As you interested in?
 - Probably. However, fabulous contract with the Federation, I have no.
 - Does anyone have one?
 - The Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski, Sasha Cohen. Alas, we are not foreign countries, and not football. A great deal has already been the fact that the Federation will pay me costumes, choreographers, doctors and trainers on the PFD. There is a stipend for the Olympic team - 45 thousand rubles. Also thanks............
 

- Why is your mom had to return to the sport?

- Sport - a huge burden on me, and loved ones. But I too want to enter at the Olympics in three, bring a medal in Russia. Try to do to win, while falling into the winners will also be great. The new system is very complicated.
 - In what sense?
 - Judging. I even invited the judge to the international category, so he looked up and gave training: "Your track can be estimated from the second level to the fourth." I peresprosil - so the second or the fourth? Answers: "The judge may say that this is an unfinished loop. A hook - is wrong ..."
 - How can that be?
 - That's the big question. System is fragile. Over the jumps, I do not worry - if done is done. The rest will deal on the items. We decided to Mishin that will invite all of our experts to judge. Now working on a way out of jumping, end up short and arbitrary program. It's little time. First Start - Russian Cup in Samara - only three months.
 - What's next?
 - Following an international tournament in Finland, "Grand Prix", Championship of Russia, Europe. In February - the Olympics in Vancouver....

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Evgeni Plushenko, 2006 Olympic champion of Russia, has announced he is making a comeback to figure skating, with intent to compete at the Vancouver Olympics a year from now.

Plushenko, a three-time world champion, hasn’t competed since he won the gold medal in Turin and has been busy with other ventures.

At the Turin Olympics, Plushenko chalked up the most impressive scores in the history of the sport, and one of them still stands as a record: his 90.66 points for a short program, Globe and Mail reports.

Plushenko took a break from competitive skating following the 2006 Olympic season. He has said the off season has helped him rest and recover from past knee injuries he has battled.

After seeing the poor results of Russian skaters in the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships (which was the worst since 1960), Plushenko was worried about Russia losing its status as a dominant force in figure skating, and was also concerned that Russia might even lose spots for its skaters in the 2010 Winter Olympics. He announced in April 2007 that he has decided to return to competitive skating for the 2007-2008 season, to keep Russia at a competitive level with other countries until the next generation of Russian skaters can take over.

But he didn’t come back. 

For the past couple of years, he’s had no Grand Prix assignments.

First, Evgeni Plushenko would have to win his way back onto the Russian team by competing at his national championships next December.

French sports magazine L’Equipe reports that Russian media say he’s decided to defend his Olympic title.

 

"Do you can repeat again, Evgeni? One more time, one more time!"
... for all of us - just do it again, Evgeni :-)