Звезды фигурного катания в Ледовом - Poster: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=163#p21408 (videos was taken from the documentary movie "Про меня" / "About me" 2004)
cekoni wrote:More "old" videos ... ..... Plushenko - Winner & finale (Stars on Ice 2005, St. Petersburg) - his first appearance after injury and surgery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Piijc1x748
Only an athlete with the heart and the artistic skills of Plush can turn a sad thing as a surgery in a awesome masterpiece like this program! When he seemed lost, Zhenya came back again on the rink, symbolically leaving his crutch on the ice and dancing like he never done before, full of vitality and overwhelming joy. It's like he is saying: "dear fans, don't worry, I'm still able to fly on the ice, I'm back and I'll dance for you even better than before!"
Всегда, когда смотрю этот номер, прям плакать хочеться, вспоминая, что ему предшествовало. И в то же время-радоваться, что не сломался тогда, вернулся и выстоял! Cekoni, спасибо за видео
Евгений Плющенко: "Спорт - это моя жизнь. Спортивные достижения во славу России - это моя религия. Для меня это не просто слова, это суть всего, что я делал и делаю в спорте."
Вера wrote:Это не Раскаленный пьедестал. Это более подробное интервью. Вот, сняла с экрана.
"Unusual fates" - Interview Evgeni Plushenko from 2007 translation
- My legs hurt, my knees hurt so bad, I had pain in my back, but the main thing - to go through this pain. I went through the pain and everything worked out. Some parents do not enforce their children: if it hurts, well, okay, take a rest. I was enforced nevertheless, and I myself wanted to go through the pain, I overcame the pain, I just managed to do this. I was training 7-8 hours a day. During a practice- when I was learning 3,5 Axel - I did 70-75 jumps, it is only one kind of jumps. So I’ve got strangulation of the sciatic nerve, problems with my meniscus, the increasing of the inguinal rings – I had surgeries; I hit my foot with my skate and cut a tendon – I had a surgery. So actually I have many injuries, but it is a professional sport, and you know what you strive for, you know what is waiting for you.
- The most important medal for me – the Olympic one of course. Why? Because when my mother gave me to figure skating, - figure skating used to be broadcasted very late and very rarely, at least in Volgograd,- so when I was 5-6 y. o., I began to watch figure skating, Viktor Petrenko performed then, he became my idol, I just looked only at him; he won the Olympics, and I was sitting with Mom and said: I want that too, I want to win, and from that moment, I wanted only to win the Olympic Games. In 2002 in Salt Lake City I came second. For me it was defeat. I lost. I can not be the second; I must be only the first, so it was defeat. But then I thought: I'm only 18, the second place - probably it is not bad. And again I calmly began to work, to win the competitions, and I came to these Olympics and won. I used to fight for the medals, and now just… I used to fight only for gold, to rise to the first place on the podium. Now I just calmly go and fight with myself. And let the rest fight with me - that's my position.
- I do not know what's going on now in the changing rooms, but I hope there are no more such things as used to be, different things - skates flew without skate guards, they cut with blades (...) etc. But I think, the life, through which I passed as a youngster, gave me strength, I got power. And now I have the result.
- I have a business as well, what business – I don’t want to tell, but very serious and very good one. Well, for a long time I'm already kinda a wealthy person. I have enough for myself and probably for my children for living, so I'm not worried about myself. After the sport I actually want to live for myself, to relax, to play tennis, to sunbathe, to swim, to lie on the sand, to go somewhere, to forget everything, to spend time with my son. I do not regret a single second that I'm in figure skating, on the contrary, that’s cool. I'm an athlete. My mom chose this way for me, and some time later, when she came to me and asked: Do you want to skate? - I said - Yes! And I chose this path, and I absolutely do not regret that I have injuries, that I overcame many surgeries. So what? I am healthy, alive and, well, I’m fighting and I will fight.
М. Плисецкая: "Пожалуй, Плющенко похож на Годунова. Тоже высокий, статный, эффектный, уверен в себе. Да и эти длинные развевающиеся на ветру и в пируэтах белые волосы. Такой же тип. И темперамент у него есть, и артистизм."
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Вер,спасибо за видяшку И Вася так...говорит ,слушала б слушала Вот всегда бы так,Вася!
..."Российский фигурист Евгений Плющенко добился уникального достижения. Он выступил на четвертых Олимпийских играх - и выиграл четвертую медаль,став двукратным олимпийским чемпионом! "...