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April 14, 2005:
Evgeni will rest now for two weeks on an island in south-east Asia.
My friend Larissa makes a scrapbook for Evgeni, you can send letters to Evgeni to wish him good luck. She will be able to forward the scrapbook to Evgeni. E-mail her for more information at plushyletters@hotmail.com
New article about Evgeni sending a letter to all figure skating fans and news what happens next.
Here is another picture of Evgeni meeting President of Russia Vladimir Putin during the World Championships.
Right click on the links and click "save target as" (in other languages something similar) to save the videos on your computer.
Evgeni won't perform at the exhibitions in
Moscow nor in St. Petersburg. But in Moscow they will show on the
screens a clip of Evgeni while Edvin Marton plays "Godfather" with the violin. Also Evgeni most likely does not
go on Champions on Ice tour. I'll let you know when its final that he
doesn't go. It is very important now he takes care of his injury.
He is being under monitoring in the Central
Traumatological Institute in Moscow. They want to find out the exact state of
his injury and afterwards act accordingly. It is a groin muscle that is injured
( it is slightly torn).
Interesting articles:
March 17, 2005:
Evgeni has withdrawn from the World Championships. In an Eurosport live interview
Evgeni stated that he is unable to defend his title today due to injury.
He said his condition got worse and in the short program the injections
to cover the pain didn't help that much
so he didn't saw a chance to compete with the very strong skaters if he is not in
top shape. Asked who he think would win the World Championship now, he said "It's difficult....the Swiss guy, he can win no problem!"
He means Stephane Lambiel. He apologized to all his fans that he can't compete today...he said he will definitely try to come back next season...
Short program result page.
The free skate is on Thursday 19:00 (Moscow time).
Article about the short program.
After the World Championships there will be an exhibition gala in St. Petersburg on March 21 with all participants of Worlds exhibition.
March 14, 2005:
Evgeni won his qualification round!
The todays men qualifying free skate had 45 skaters parted in two different competitions. Evgeni skated
in the second part as the first skater. He scored 151.90 points for his free skate of "Godfather".
He skated clean and did not try a quad but still had a great lead of 21.90 points over
second placed skater Stefan Lindemann (130.00 points). In the first group of the qualification,
Stefane Lambiel had a slight better score then Evgeni of 152.00 but he landed two quads.
Tomorrow is the short program wich starts at 13.30 (Moscow time) and 25% of the
score of the qualification will be added to the final result of the short program and Evgeni
has now 37.98. (I hope I explained that well..)
Results page of the qualifying free skate A
But there are also bad news is, Evgeni is not completely healthy, see
article, but he decided to skate anyway today.
Pictures of the qualifying:
Pic1
Pic2
March 13, 2005:
Evgeni met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the opening ceremonies of the World Championships,
here is a picture.
And a practice picture
Evgeni will start tomorrow at the World Championships in Moscow around 14:00 (Moscow time) as
the first skater in the second group of the qualification free skate. "Eurosport" will show the whole competition but unfortuantely no qualification competition.
See Eurosport website for the tv schedule. Click on photo to enlarge
On March 14 the World Championships in Moscow begin with the men qualifying rounds. The European Channel "Eurosport" will show the whole competition except the qualifying rounds (most likely).
Click on photo to enlarge
February 3, 2005:
Evgeni is from Feb. 1-5 in Switzerland having shows at "Art on Ice".
He showed his program Gofather like at the Euro's exhibition with Edvin Marton's
live violin music. A reports says, as a second program Evgeni skated to live music of the singer Seal.
(Photos by Dushenka) Click on photo to enlarge
January 30, 2005:
Evgeni skated at the exhibiton today two programs, his free skate Godfather to live violin music of Edvin Marton and Sex Bomb wich was also the last number of this exhibition.
Click on photo to enlarge
January 28, 2005:
Some screenshots of the free skate. Click here to see them.
January 27, 2005:
Evgeni won the European Championships!!
He got his title back after losing it in 2004. It is his fourth European title after
2000, 2001, 2003! He collected
151.81 points for the free skate, 4.36 more than Brian Joubert. It was enogh
to win back the title with 227.14 points overall.
His program to "Godfather" music was powerful and completed perfectly his
trademark combination
4 toeloop-3 toeloop-2 loop.
Then a 3 axel-2 toeloop, 3 axel, 3lutz, 3 flip-2 toeloop, 3 salchow, 2 axel, 2 loop.
Evgeni said: "I told to myself today 'today I must fight'.
At the short program as I was 2nd that was just some normal skating
without fight so I needed to fight today, yes today I was a fighter on ice.
I can fight, I like it and thats how I can win."
Full free skate results page
And pictures!
Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3
Pic 4
Pic 5
Pic 6
More screenshots coming soon on this place!
January 26, 2005:
Evgeni finished 2nd in the short program (75.33 points) today after Brian Joubert
(76.98 points), he is only leading 1.65 points.
Skating to the music of Moonlight Sonata, Evgeni had a step out on the quadruple
toeloop and was a little low on the triple axel but the triple lutz was perfect.
Joubert was clean having almost the same jumps (4t-2t, 3a, 3L).
Evgeni said: "I was a little tired and didn't feel comfortable.
But everything will be OK for the free skating. It didn't work out today but I am still in the competition."
Click on photo to enlarge
Russian Nationals Results and News:
January 7, 2005:
Evgeni won his 6th Russian Nationals title! He received for his performance another four 6.0's!!
His marks:
He did: 4 toeloop - 3 toeloop, 2 axel - 3lutz, 3 Axel, 3 salchow, 3 flip - 3toeloop, 2A, 3 loop.
Free skate
results page
End
results page
January 6, 2005:
Here are photos of the short program:
Click on photo to enlarge
Tomorrow is the free skate at 7:30 pm Russian time.
January 5, 2005:
Evgeni won the short program! I have no details yet but his marks:
Tech: 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.8
He did 4 toeloop-3 toeloop, 3 axel and there was a mistake on the 3 lutz.
January 5, 2005:Evgeni is now at the Russian Nationals wich will be held from January 5-8 in St. Petersburg. Today is the mens short program, it will start at 8pm Russian time. At the Nationals they still use the 6.0 system.
I got these photos wich where made at the Nationals showing him signing his merchandise wich you can buy now! Click here!
Click on photo to enlarge
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And check out the official Evgeni merchandise wich you can exclusively buy now. Here you can see all details.
Read a full Report here
Happy New Year to you all!!
Here are
Photos!, the ones of Evgeni begin with number 17.
December 19, 2004:
Here are pictures of the exhibition he did the program from last World Championships:
December 18, 2004:
Evgeni won the Grand Prix Final for the 4th time!! He won the free skate with a huge lead of 27.20 points to Jeffrey Buttle!
His total score is 251.75 and beated his record of 234.29. While last year he lost to Emanuel Sandhu due to a rule violation doing one combination to much, the rules has changed and he was now allowed to show 3 combinations and he did. Also this year Sandhu couldn't
challange him at all and took only 4th place. Evgeni was unbeatable today, he completed again his 4 toeloop - 3 toeloop - 2 loop combination and 3 axel - 2 toeloop, 3 lutz - 3 toeloop, 3 flip, 2 axel, 3 salchow and 3 loop without any mistakes but he only commented: "I did today what I needed to do. For the moment it was OK." He also got a high presentation mark of 8.15-8.50.
Article
The complete Results
Here is a video of an interview after the free skate, it's almost 7 minutes long, click here to see it.
If this doesn't work for you, you need to enter this address mms://nv.sina.com.cn/sports/2004/12/18735839.wmv
into the Windows Media Player. The server is rather slow, so if it doesn't work properly, please try it several times.
December 17, 2004:
Evgeni has won the short program with a new personal best (and best ever) score of 84.35!! He is 8 points ahead of the second placed skater Jeffery Buttle.
Here are the full Results.
Evgeni said: "It was a good short program, I’m very
happy with it. I finally did the combination, and it was very clean. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s free skating, although I have a difficult program."
Pictures of his short program!
There is a video of the practice, it's 4 minutes long, click here to see it.
If this doesn't work for you, you need to enter this address mms://nv.sina.com.cn/sports/2004/12/17716583.wmv
into the Windows Media Player. The server is rather slow, so if it doesn't work properly, please try it several times.
December 16, 2004:
Evgeni has arrived in Beijing/China at the Grand Prix Final and will compete.
Here are some
Pictures from practice. And an
Article.
He did a clean program and just doubled the flip, he did:
His marks are:
All Results
Photo Page 1
Photo Page 2
Photo Page 3
I begin with
the most recent news: Evgeni is scheduled to skate at the "Marshalls World Cup of
Figure Skating" on December 3 in Auburn Hills, Michigan/USA. Also there are
negotiations about that he might perform at the ARD Gala on December 12 in
Frankfurt/Germany but the organaizers still wait for permission of the federation.
It could be decided on the last second so if you live near Frankfurt, just go there
just in case he will show up.
TV ALERT! The German channel "ARTE" plans a series with 5 episodes of a
documentation of skating in St. Petersburg (in the season 2003/2004) including Evgeni. The series starts on
December 13 at 20.15 called Eisfieber (Icefever). To read more details, go to
www.tvtv.de and type in the field "Suche" the word Eisfieber and then you get
an overview of all episodes, when you click on Eisfieber at evry day you get to read
the details (sorry only German).
Cup of Russia results:
This was Evgeni's first competition this season last weekend wich he won by far with a 25.46 lead to Johnny Weir. Evgeni was just 1 point away from his personal best score and worlds best score of 234.29.
At the short program he fell on the quad toeloop then adding a double toeloop
but wich wasn't counted. But he completed then a triple axel and triple lutz clean.
In the presentation mark he got 7.75-8.05. That was still enogh to go in lead with
74.95 points. Here is full result page
"Well, this was my first important competition this year, and it was a bit hard. I was nervous. Overall I’m in a good shape and I’m well prepared. I got positive reactions on my program, but I can do this program a lot better in practice. I don’t understand the mistake on the quadruple toeloop. I already landed the jump and had skated half a meter when I suddenly fell."
He wore an old modified costume he had last season to the Flamenco program, there were a lot of sparkles added around the front part.
Here is a video about tv news about the short program: click here to see the video
At the free skate he showed his class again by completing a 4 toeloop - 3 toeloop, 3 axel, 3 axel - 2 toeloop, 3 lutz - 3 toeloop, 3 flip, 2 axel, 3 salchow and 3 loop. His only mistake was on the salchow with a step out. He skated to his new program "Godfather" and had a new costume,
here is a
picture.
Evgeni said after the free skate:
"It was an okay performance for my first serious competition but I can do better. It was enough to do one quadruple here and two triple Axels. I do a second quaduple jump (Salchow) in practice but we decided not to include it in the program here. My season started late. I have been sick with pneumonia and otitis (ear inflamation) and I'm not at 100 per cent yet but I think I'll be in top shape at worlds."
Here is full result page of the free skate
Plushenko did not skate. He was not even there to apologize. However, I had a chance to talk to Oliver Höner, the head of AOI, who has told me the story. Plushenko was in Prague all week practicing for the show and it was only on Friday when he was eventually told by ISU that he must not skate. It was because of his withdrawal from the GP series. They have tried everything to convince the ISU people to change their attitude but, unfortunately, with no results. ISU has insisted on that if Evgeni is well enough to skate at the show he, being a seeded skater, should be in Japan at this moment. Finally, Evgeni had to understand that in case he would go get on the ice with the show now he would jeopardize his amateur status. He and his managers are very upset about this treatment. Zhenya was feeling so bad for not being allowed to skate that he could not even take another turn of apologies in Budapest. He rather stayed away from the ice rink and left home.
Here are also more pics of an tv report.
Click here to see a video with small parts of his performance as well as an interview.
Check the Schedule for his next competitions (and exhibitions) where he definitely will take part in.
Photo 1 Photo 2 there will be more later.
In the meanwhile its clear he won't do the Grand Prix events Skate Canda and NHK Trophy but he wants to do Cup of Russia though. You can read about the reasons in the below article.
From: http://www.rtr-sport.ru/doc.html?id=208896&cid=70
Plushenko has declined Grand Prix
Russian skater Evgeny Plushenko plans declining the Grand Prix events. ITAR-TASS reports that his coach Alexei Mishin made the announcement on Wendsday.
"Looking at last year's results, Plushenko and I are satisfied", says Mishin. "The skater competed seven times, and won five; he missed only twice, at Grand Prix Final and at Europeans. The season before that was also jam packed -- we took part in and won five championships. However, Evgeni and I now realize that too many competitions can not bring optimal results. Considering the illness, the remnants of which should be healed, as well as to comply with the doctors' recommendations and to avoid risk, we chose a different strategy." According to the coach, they deliberately give up the "long fight approach", and will not "skate in each major championship". "The upcoming season will be very long, and will stretch to a full year and a half, all the way to 2006 Olympics," reminded Mishin. "We must peak at Turin's Olympics. That means developing a new preparation scheme. We will take the new startegy into account when deciding to take place in any competitions. So we must refuse many lucrative deals (one Grand Prix event can bring as much as $50.000). I'd like to emphasize that we consider the 2005 Worlds in Moscow and 2006 Olympics to be the important events. Accordingly, we'd like to appologize to ISU, the Russian Figure Skating Federation, and to foreign federations for being unable to represent our country at international competitions. We hope to be properly undertood: we sacrifice medals and prizes in the name of a higher goal. We announce this openely and in a timely manner. We hope to not deny the audience Plushenko's skating, so the fans will definitely see Evgeni at the exhibitions", concluded the coach.
Season 2004/2005 Part 1
News of his former official site with messages of Evgeni
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March 15, 2005:
Evgeni only finished 3rd after the short program with 73.28 points. Skating to his program
"Moonlight Sonata" he had also only the 5th best short program in the scoring.
The reason is that he fell on the quad and he lost to many points by it. The rest of the program
was flawless with a triple axel and triple lutz, he even did the Biellmann spin after a long time again.
His score is 73.28 and 111.26 overall.
First is
Stephane Lambiel (80.28 short prgram, 118.28 overall) who did a strong program as
well as Brian Joubert who is second (79.66 short program, 112.66 overall) that means that
Evgeni needs to gain 7.02 points more in the free skate then the others to win. Which is possible
since he could get often 20-30 points more overall than the second placed skater but this time it
can be difficult since he is not in very good health but hoping for the best!
October 28, 2004:
Evgeni has competed in a competition from October 26-27 called "Second stage of
Cup of Russia" in Samara/Russia wich is usually mostly for Russian youth skaters,
I heard the first time from it so I can't tell for sure. He decided to go there to show the
new programs to the audience and judges in a competition before the Grand Prix Cup of
Russia (end of November) and he was so successful! 
