Evgeni Plushenko told about the plans for the Olympics 2018 – RBC

Plushenko marked the only obstacle on the way to the fifth Olympics

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Two-time Olympic figure skating champion Evgeni Plushenko told about plans to perform at the Olympic Games in 2018 to be held in South Korean Pyeongchang.

Evgeni Plushenko had to take a break in his career after the 2014 Olympics. At the Games in Sochi, he injured his back in the team competition and due to this injury starred with individual tournament.

«I feel much better. I have not worried about back, injury, but will miss sports season. But I will participate in commercial performances. If health will be all right, you can continue to speak and try to qualify for a fifth Olympics – said Plushenko, the TV channel “Russia 2».

First Plushenko became the Olympic champion at the Olympics 2006 in Turin , winning by a large margin from the silver medalist, the Swiss Stephane Lambiel. His next triumph Eugene had to wait eight years – at the Olympics in Sochi Russian figure skater won her second gold, not only in the individual competition, and in the team competition.

Plushenko expected to become Sochi triple Olympic champion, but this did not come true. Before starting the men’s singles tournament Eugene was forced to withdraw from the competition due to back pain. This provoked a scandal, because theoretically, instead of Eugene could make one of the reservists – or vice-European champion Sergei Voronov, a champion of Russia Maxim Kovtun.

But Eugene until recently expected to take part in the competition, so do not take my candidacy – according to the rules, it could be done for health reasons. In addition, even before the start of the Olympic Games, Plushenko reproached that he was selected for the tournament after a closed car rental, while formally the number one team was going to be Maxim Kovtun – as a champion of Russia.

Representatives of the United States, drawing attention to the criticism that befell Plushenko, offered to play for their team, but he refused.

After the Olympic Games in Sochi, Evgeni Plushenko had surgery and was forced to cancel some of their shows. But then he returned to the ice. There is information that Eugene is going to make the Olympics in South Korea, which will be held in 2018 – the same year, when Russia will host the World Cup. By the time the athlete will be 35 years. His wife Jan Rudkovskaja promised that Eugene “a revolution” in figure skating.

If Plushenko can really speak in South Korea, he thereby set a record: yet no one skater failed to perform at five Olympic Games. To date, Eugene is the only skater to win medals in four Olympics. In addition to two gold medals to his credit two silver ( Salt Lake City 2002 and Vancouver 2010). Russian shares with Swede Yillisom Grafstrёmom record for the most Olympic medals in figure skating.

Евгений Plushenko performs at a show in Japan. Photo Global Look Press.

In the summer coach Alexei Mishin, Plushenko said that his client will return in the upcoming season in the Russian national team and will participate in the training camp and control skating team, but will miss at that all the major tournaments of the season. The idea was that Eugene did not speak at the World Championships, Europe and Russia.

«Our goal – to eat a big cake tomorrow, and not a small cake today,” – said Mishin. In addition Plushenko season 2014/15 will miss the three-time world champion Canadian Patrick Chan, winner of the 2010 World Cup Japanese Daisuke Takahashi and his famous compatriot – a three-time world champion Mao Asada.