When someone said: "Plushenko don’t give chance to the young skaters", I answer: I do not bother anyone, young people grow, but they must to show more skills. If they won 8, 9th places... whose fault is it? They have all the cards in hand. You should to prove yourself, be the best, be the number one, two, three. They can not blame anyone, than self. And now is very hard to russian skaters to compete with top world skaters, such as Hanyu, Patrick Chan, Fernandez....
That's right. He never bothers any young skaters. It's so ridiculous to ask him to *give chance* to the young skater, which means the young is not excellent enough to beat him, let alone competing with other top young skaters. Surely those rivals from other countries won't *give chance* to you and send you to the podium.
:plush41: Plushy won the bronze medal in 1998 worlds champions when he is only 15. :plush32: The chance is not given by someone but gain by himself, for winning gold medal of Worls Jr last year.