Evgeni Plushenko announced his intention to speak at the 2018 Olympics

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Evgeni Plushenko craves fame and strives for records. Today he officially announced his intention to compete at the 2018 Olympic Games. This will be the fifth Olympics for the skater. And, judging by the words of the athlete, he does not intend to miss the opportunity to get another medal.

Plushenko announced his plans at a ceremony honoring the journalists who covered the Games in Sochi. “Everything that was broken has healed, there is nothing more to break. Let's try to compete at the fifth Olympiad - and perform with dignity,”the athlete said.

It seems that Evgeny does not want to remember his plans to leave the ice and will fight to the last. By the way, recently at an ice show in Japan, the skater performed an axel with three and a half turns - one of the most difficult jumps in figure skating. And this is just 3, 5 months after the surgery on the spine.

As the media emphasize, at the moment the 31-year-old Russian is the only skater who has participated in four Olympics. At the time of the 2018 Games, Plushenko will be 35 years old.

Recall that at the Sochi Olympics, the athlete won gold in the team competition, but refused to participate in the individual championship due to a back injury. In March, Yevgeny underwent an operation, and doctors strongly advised the champion not to rush back to the ice.

Since June, Plushenko has been performing in the ice show, but at the same time he will miss the main starts of the new season in figure skating. As the coach of the athlete Alexei Mishin clarified, Evgeny will not take part in the world and European championships, and will also miss the Russian championship. “Plushenko's main task for the next season is to recover and accumulate strength for further performances. Both Patrick Chan and Mao Assada will miss the season. Our goal is to eat a big cake tomorrow, not a small cake today,”Mishin emphasized.