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"let`s talk" already translated most important sentences - here are translation of complete article... Evgeni Plushenko: Yana promised me that after the Olympics will give birth to another baby!Last year
(In fact, in January of this year) the figure skater Evgeni Plushenko has gone through a serious operation on the spine. Then, many figure skating fans thought that the Olympic champion finally hung up the skates and abandoned his plans for the Winter Olympics.
So thought Evgeni himself, as the rehabilitation process was long, the pains did not stop. But thanks to the support of his coach Alexei Mishin and wife Yana Rudkovskaya, athlete still back on the ice. And now a skater strenuously preparing for the upcoming Olympics.
To support husband, arrived in Sochi his wife Yana with children: their common with Evgeni 8-month-old Sasha, and her sons from her marriage with Victor Baturin - 12-year-old Andrey and 11-year-old Kolya. This whole team is located in the house of Yana's parents.
In this big happy family was not always rosy. Rudkovskaya's ex-husband, a businessman Victor Baturin, after the divorce was hiding from Yana's sons, despite the fact the decision of the Court was that boys had to live with the mother. Only when he went to jail on charges of fraud, Yana was able to pick up Andrey and Kolya. Children did not immediately want to communicate with her, refused to call her mother. A very long time, she had to look for the key to her sons. But now, it's seems, the ice is broken. Even when to the house arrives Evgeni Plushenko, the boys screaming thrown to him on the neck.
- Zhenya, you're in a summer training camp brought the whole family...
- For our baby Sasha, here is very suitable climate: the sun, the sea, - explained Olympic champion. - And so it happened, that I have here now the pre-Olympic camp. So we decided that Yana and the kids, while I train, there will a rest. I'm not at home all week. Five days I living in the base along with other athletes, and for the weekend I come to my wife and children.
- Yana Rudkovskaya: Sochi is my hometown. We're always happy to have a rest here. Our Gnome Gnomych
(so parents call his youngest son Alexander - Ed.) here for the first time stood on its feet. We wait now son's first steps.
- Evgeni, you really decided to go on the Olympics?
- I now do everything for this start. Now it's my ultimate dream. The Ministry of Sports has provided me the professionals with whom I'm going through rehabilitation: works with me the whole team! Massages, acupuncture, etc. For the first time in my practice is so.
Actually, because of what I have so many injuries? Never in my life I did not have a team that would have made sure that I correctly recovering after exertion. Doctors, massage therapists. In the 12 years I taught Axel with 2.5 turns, in the 13 years I have made it. In the 14 years I have been already doing a quadruple jump. The organism was not yet formed, the bones were weak, and I have done these complex elements! And in the team was only the coach and choreographer..
Now, of course, I feel the difference in approach. Every day I get up at eight in the morning for the first training. Load has gone already serious. Now I steadily jump the quad. Literally yesterday, a quadruple lutz jump - this is the most difficult element in figure skating. And the ardor I have.
- Who is your main opponent in the upcoming Olympics ?
- My main opponent now - it's me. It is necessary to overcome the injuries. Psychologically cope.
Yes, the last two years was very hard. But now I'm fine. Almost is ready Free program. It will be a medley of my best performances. On costume we are working with the Valery Yudashkin. I think we have a good team.
Short program also will be interesting. I will skate to music from the film "We Are From the Future 2", a song by the group "Ocean Elzy" - very melodic, so lyrical, pained and deep music.
- Have you thought about what you do after the Olympics ?
- I want to create a school and necessarily my ice theater.
- Yana, what you think about approach the coach Alexei Mishin for Zhenya's preparation? You agree with him?
- I have with Alexei very trusting relationship. He loves Evgeni, my husband for him is as a son. Mishin and I often talk on the phone, discussing everything with him. It happens, and argue. Then he said: "Girl, you're wrong, do not rush!"
And I love my husband and understand him. If I see that in Zhenya's something not working, or he is tired, or something hurts him, I do not touch him - we do not even talk about training. In the end, Zhenya must to have his own private space.
I am happy that my husband's consult with me. We are not just husband and wife, we are real friends. Zhenya helped me in the education of my older sons, and raises them in real men. Boys under his leadership began to play sports, have to respect the people, to learn. To me alone, it would be difficult with two teenagers.
- Evgeni, the birth of Sasha your younger son has changed you? It becomed additional stimulus to victory?
- I really miss my family. Yana's children - Andrey and Kolya. I miss Egor, my eldest son. I miss the little Sasha. Family is the most important thing. To be honest, any medals, any money, any glory, can not replace to me the family. When are with me my wife and the kids, I feel myself at ease. I always dreamed that I had a big family.
- Do you remember, two years ago, when you still dont had Sasha with Yana, you said in an interview with "KP", that you dream the twins after the Olympics?
- Yes, we still did not stop at the completion of the family. Yana has promised to me that after the Olympics will give birth to another child.
I'm friend with Yana's sons. Already told them, that when I finish with figure skating, I'll be with them explore some other sport. They now play football. Even at the professional level. To the boys I immediately made it clear: "You will become athletes. Whether you like it, or not."
- And Sasha?
- Plushenko: Sasha for sure will be an athlete. Either hockey, golf, football, or tennis.
- Yana Rudkovskaya: I would like football, or tennis. I do not know why, but everyone thinks that if child is born in skater's family, must to be a figure skater. I believe that the child alone should to choose.
- Plushenko: The child alone did not choose.
- Rudkovskaya: There should be and desire. If a child stand on skates, if likes it...
- Plushenko: Did not like it.
- Rudkovskaya: How do you know?
- Plushenko: I know. Can not like that. Actually, the first time he'll like it. But when go the system, and its parents forced him to deal with it every day, the child will quickly get bored.
- Rudkovskaya: I do not know... You like!
- Plushenko: I also do not always like it. When I fell and banged my head, back, elbows, what do you think - I like it? Naturally, I wanted to finish it faster. And to go in the yard to play football with the boys...
- Rudkovskaya: In any case, we will choose a sport. I think it would be football. If we have a girl, we will maybe choose a figure skating.
- Plushenko: No way. None of us will not be a skater.
- Rudkovskaya: You will not allow?
- Plushenko: No.
- Rudkovskaya: But I think that we need to continue...
- Plushenko: Skaters in our family will be no more!
- Rudkovskaya: If it's a girl, and she says she wants to skate, I don think that you'll say no.
- Plushenko: Soon, I will be a 31 years old. All my life I skated. And I now realize, that this is really a difficult sport. If you're in a team, you can rest on a bench, while the salary goes... But, unfortunately, in individual sports such things not happen. Injured - try to get out, and prove. As more the type of sport is individualized, they are more complex.
- Who will be in the stands, rooting for you at the Olympics?
- Mom and Dad will not go - they never sat at the stands. Very worried. Next to me will be a wife and all of our children. Including younger. And if my ex-wife Masha let my eldest Egor, he will come to support his father.
We bought a house in Moscow's the suburbs - after the birth of our baby, became narrowly for us in the apartment. And even when more childrens appear, will be more comfortable them to live outside the city.
Now I have nothing to distract me from the preparation for my last start: the house was built, the children grow. Now the most importantly is to win!