Evgeni Plushenko

gallavich said:

When I read about the physical education program, I was reminded of the comments I've seen here on GS about Plushy having no life beyond figure skating. I don't know how much more full his life could be. Oh, well. The ones who bash him the most will never take the time to learn about him.

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"People will laugh at your dreams, then you will hate it, when you realize them."

Arnold Schwarzenegger

^^^ Nice quote!

edit- I thought Lilyshenka added the caps but no...they actually had them on to make pizzas for children https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzrezhvCEAAhD9f.png

gallavich said:

^^^ Nice quote!

edit- I thought Lilyshenka added the caps but no...they actually had them on to make pizzas for children https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzrezhvCEAAhD9f.png

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This is not Lilyshenka's collage...this is the reality http://instagram.com/p/uBMwt9lSKn/ Yana's instagram : Cooking pizza for children! Any idea who was the most delicious pizza !! ??? I'm just warning you ... just stood there in the hood!)))

another one: http://instagram.com/p/uBDLZyFSF5 that beautiful woman is Sasha's godmother

The line between reality and fiction has blurred... It looks like we're already entering a fairy tale.

gallavich said:

When I read about the physical education program, I was reminded of the comments I've seen here on GS about Plushy having no life beyond figure skating. I don't know how much more full his life could be. Oh, well. The ones who bash him the most will never take the time to learn about him.

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To be honest... why does this matter? I don't care if my skaters have a life outside skating--I watch them for their skating! And considering Plushy's stature in the sport, he can live just fine dedicating his life to skating if he wants (as a competitor, as a performer in shows, as a coach, as the director of a skating school...).

gallavich said:

When I read about the physical education program, I was reminded of the comments I've seen here on GS about Plushy having no life beyond figure skating. I don't know how much more full his life could be. Oh, well. The ones who bash him the most will never take the time to learn about him.

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Oh yes, I remember that post. I mean, seriously why the hell they think it's not healthy for retired skaters to involve in skating, but when they do some promotions ad and get money from their reputation, it's healthy. Meh!,

Meoima said:

Oh yes, I remember that post. I mean, seriously why the hell they think it's not healthy for retired skaters to involve in skating, but when they do some promotions ad and get money from their reputation, it's healthy. Meh!,

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It's the "you should get a proper job!"-mentality, I think.

Plushy could do everything. He is talented in everything what he is doing and that is always quality and professional. There are such people. He chose the sport and he is still not tired of it. Plushy wants to be a coach wants own skating school in a few years. I'm sure he will be a good coach. And what he wants, what is his dream realizes them. He is strong, he has iron will plus his wife is Yana Rudkovskaya!!!

He said- not too long time ago- he has a wonderful life and thanked it Alexei Nikolayevich Mishin because Mishin gave him this... And I love Plushy because of this sentence.


Well, he can't sing..but cute.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTqVhjM_NzI


Second report of Cekoni http://evgeni-plushenko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=379&p=85302#p85302

"General" short report ... :

Plushy was tired, but he was in good mood, patient and ready to do any favor to media, fans, helped Ari with choreography... lush40:
This time i did not bothered him with a "special" interview for the site/forum, since he was really exhausted. After all - you'll have the chance to see 2-3 interviews which he gives to the Romanian media :mi_ga_et:

Ice rink was really small and in poor condition, so Plushy not could show the hardest elements, and he had to be careful. (arena where the shows were held in 2010 and 2012, meanwhile is closed, so that the tiny rink is only one that currently exists in Bucharest - except one for the kids in the shopping mall) lush34:

Btw, the presence of fans at rehearsals was not approved by organizer, but they somehow slipped through security

Almost everything what happened, I and recorded - so I do not have almost anything more to add. Just watch videos, and you'll see what I saw. :mo-ro_zi_vo:

The only thing which I failed to record is Plushy's "autograph session" after the show - it was short and unplanned, and I was already out there, beyond the ice rink.

Cekoni's report s from backstage will be 10 videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsz_B4Nr314 in mini-bus no Plushy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvo0pNyK53U (25 minutes! Plushy arrives, Opening rehearsal...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0lt-hp9yIw (Plushy take pics w/ fans, Final rehearsal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZJyQ3tx25Q (Edvin & his new violin, Plushy interview, Finale rehearsal)


Do you remember Axelbush? The Japanese fans sent him some cute things http://instagram.com/p/t73PJ7kzFf/


Sasha is cuter every day.."@EvgeniPlushenko: Started training with my son Alexander http://instagram.com/p/t8JCT1my2m/ "

"@yanarudkovskaya: Today to us arrived fairy Dingle Bell ! @gnomgnomych http://instagram.com/p/t7KxF5lSCE/ "

LRK said:

It's the "you should get a proper job!"-mentality, I think.

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But their way of thinking is flawed, I mean they think Yuna with her CM ads and sponsors is fine but Plushenko with his ice shows is unhealthy. Meh!!! They all make money. They all have jobs. What's the difference?

Meoima said:

But their way of thinking is flawed, I mean they think Yuna with her CM ads and sponsors is fine but Plushenko with his ice shows is unhealthy. Meh!!! They all make money. They all have jobs. What's the difference?

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I worry about Zhenya. The ice is a viable career of course. I like the shows, I like the coaching, I like the phys ed program. What worries me is that he is struggling so badly to leave behind the competition...it is the fact that he seems so unable to go without competing that worries me...his body will not hold on forever

I imagine in 15 years from now, Plushy sitting in the kiss and cry at Worlds with a young boy who has just won, as his coach :yes:

Well I am very happy at this time .. we are a lot of people all over the world. :yes: For many people unusual and incomprehensible love towards a man who never, or only very few times have seen. Do you know how many times I read such a report like this? http://evgeni-plushenko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&p=85317#p85317

Anastasia from Romania

Hi everybody!

I want to share my experience from this amazing day.
I have so much to say that I don’t know if I will be able to express in words the emotion, it was the most amazing day in my whole life.

The morning of 7th of October me and my sister Tatiana met with our friend Natalia to go and buy flowers. We wanted something very special, so we decided we will buy 11 roses each. I bought 11 white roses, my sister got 11 red roses and our friend Natalia got 11 orange roses. We wanted to give him the flowers as personal as possible, so to not throw them on the ice after the performance.

We got there and we arrived at the venue around 12:00. I previously spoke with dear cekoni who told me the rehearsals would start around 13:00, and we wanted so much to be there and watch the rehearsals.

We arrived there and we stood in front of the venue for like 45 minutes, until 13:00, when I messaged cekoni who told me Zhenya wasn’t there yet. We were still outside. We were standing in front of the venue, at the main entrance, and like I said, after like 45 minutes we went inside and asked a bodyguard if we could enter inside because it was an awful weather, cold, rain, we were freezing. The trick worked and the bodyguard let us in. Inside the venue, not inside the hall with the ice rink.

There we met a very sweet lady who was cleaning there and we talked for like another 30 minutes, until we asked a bodyguard if there is any possibility to enter the hall and stay there and watch the rehearsals. The bodyguard went inside and asked a girl who had pass if she could come to us and we could talk to her and get more details. The girl came to us and she asked us what we wanted, and we said we wanted to just stay inside and watch the rehearsals. She said she doesn’t think it’s possible, because the rules are somehow strict, that there’s a list of people who can enter and if we are not on the list it wasn’t possible. I told her we spoke with cekoni, she knew her, and she went inside and asked the organizers if we could stay in. She came back and told us that unfortunately we cannot enter because the organizers weren’t allowing people inside. I found it upsetting because it was just the three of us, we wouldn’t have done anything, we wouldn’t have bothered. I was very upset... : I wanted so much to meet Evgeni, tell him how much we love him and how we admire him, take some photos, watch him on the ice, nothing else...

We went outside and I messaged cekoni that we cannot enter, she said she cannot get us in, I knew she couldn’t but at least she gave us a great advice, to go at the back entrance and wait there because Zhenya wasn’t in yet and maybe we could meet him outside. We went there. When we arrived there we waited for like another 20 minutes, and that was the VIP entrance. A bodyguard saw us, and he asked us what are we waiting for, if we wait to meet someone, some of the skaters. I told him yes, somehow, we wait to meet with a person who is already inside (we were trying to work it out). He let us in with no problem.

God even now when I think I feel so much emotion, you have no idea how much we’ve been through that day.

So we got in and the bodyguard told us “go there in the hall, they are rehearsing...”. I was amazed, after we’ve been told it’s not possible to enter, to have this guy telling us to go in like there wasn’t any problem. He saw us elegant, with those roses, we seemed “important”!

We got there, in front of the hall, and we stood in the door. We saw the ice rink, I was so emotioned, I couldn’t think about something to make it up to be able to go inside and just stay there on a sit, to watch. Standing there, at the entrance, without getting in, we saw Zhenya. At least from there to see, it was such an overload of emotions, adrenaline, excitement. We stood there for like 30 minutes, while people were coming in and out of the hall, and at one moment the 2 guys (sorry I don’t remember their names now, the ones who skated in pairs, the 2 funny guys who did acrobatics on ice), they got out of the hall while we were standing in the door, we made them space to pass and they looked at us, smiled and said “Plushenko, Plushenko!”- as if they knew we were there for Evgeni. We laughed, they laughed and went away.

After some time a guy from the crew saw us and came to us and told us “why don’t you come in? Stay there on the seats, come on!”. We were amazed, I said “Is it possible?...I mean, to not bother...” and he said “You don’t bother! Come in.” We went inside and stood on some seats there. That was it, we’ve made it!

When we saw him there, skating, it’s an amazing feeling, his whole aura was floating in that hall. I cannot describe the beauty of this man. From all points of view. We couldn’t take our eyes off him.

We stood there for like 1 hour and a half, until they ahd to repair the ice and finally cekoni saw us and she called us and we finally met. I told her what we’ve been through, how we got inside, and being that we entered through another door which was at the upper level, when ceokni called me we went down the stairs and went down beside the ice rink, where we remained until the end. Then was when everything became so powerful, so beautiful, my emotions are overwhelming me right now too.

Evgeni was off the ice, after the ice break, and he was giving interviews, until we found a moment when he finally finished with the interviews, and we went to him. Finally. We went to him and told him “Hi, could we please take a photo?” and he said “hello! Of course!” and we took a photo with him, and I have to say, and I know many of you who met him know what I mean- he is even more beautiful in person than in photos.:yes: When I looked at him from close and saw those superb blue eyes. What can I say... he’s gorgeous. Very charming.

Now I’m gonna say something that i don’t know if cekoni caught it because she wasn’t near us.
After we took a photo with him, we went on the side on some seats, in the 3rd or 4th row, besides the ice rink. Evgeni didn’t have the skates, he was walking around there.

We were sitting there on some seats and Evgeni was coming from our right side. In the hall was the song “Sexy and I know it” on which Tomas Verner had one of his programs. Tomas was on the ice and Zhenya, as I said came from our right, he looked at us, made us a sign with the eyebrows, smiling in the corner of his mouth and he started to dance around on “I’m sexy and I know it!” moving the hips and all, right in front of us. Of course we clapped him encouraging him “davai, Zhenya!”. What an amazing, fun man, you just cannot help liking him!

Well, and then at the show. Gorgeous, sublime, I have no words to describe the real emotion there. He was sublime, to see him from the front row, he was majestic, regal. When “Best of Plushenko” started and when I saw him doing in front of me the moves from “Nijinsky” my all time favourite, I lost it, it was sublime!

We still had the roses. We wanted to find a moment and give them to him personally and we knew we should wait until the end of the show when he would came towards the audience.

The show ended and the skaters, together with Evgeni, were circling the ice rink and shaking hands with the audience. Then we though “that’s it!” and when he arrived in front of us we handed him the flowers. He saw us and he stopped in front of us, he took the flowers and he thanked us, and we kissed him. You can actually see the scene on cekoni’s video when he also has a speech before.

I still cannot believe what a superb day we had, everything we wanted we managed to do, the whole universe worked to help, that was my feeling. We managed to get through bodyguards, organizers, everyone to just be part of the most magic and beautiful moment in our lives.

I thank Zhenya from the heart, I want to tell him I adore him, there’s no other one like him, no other skater compares to him, I wish him to keep on skating and stay healthy. He said he will come back to Bucharest maybe next year, that we will meet maybe even in competition in 2018. I cannot be more happy, I know he will make it, and I support him from the heart.

я тебя люблю, Евгений! Спасибо большое!

Thank you cekoni, we were so glad to meet you! Maybe we see each other next year too!

Phew, and here are some photos from the rehearsals, and the photo with Zhenya.

Sandpiper said:

The line between reality and fiction has blurred... It looks like we're already entering a fairy tale.


To be honest... why does this matter? I don't care if my skaters have a life outside skating--I watch them for their skating! And considering Plushy's stature in the sport, he can live just fine dedicating his life to skating if he wants (as a competitor, as a performer in shows, as a coach, as the director of a skating school...).

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Exactly...I mean, aren't we on these boards because we love skating? Wouldn't you want your favorite skaters to love what they do & make a career out of it as long as they can? I mean, I understand why some skaters choose to move on to other things, but Plushy's passion for the sport is one of his greatest qualities, imo. I think regardless of what he does with his life though, people will find fault. Luckily, he probably cares much less about the criticism than we do.

http://instagram.com/p/uDkcYKlSID/?modal=true Yana has them all in promotional sweatshirts. Who is the guy on the right?

gallavich said:

http://instagram.com/p/uDkcYKlSID/?modal=true Yana has them all in promotional sweatshirts. Who is the guy on the right?

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I'm not sure, but probably one of the magicians, one of the Safronovy Brothers.

Thank you, Plushyfan, for linking to the reports. Heartwarming story from Anastasia!

Hmm, I thought the rink looked very small, from videos. Sad to hear about the other rinks closing...

Meoima said:

But their way of thinking is flawed, I mean they think Yuna with her CM ads and sponsors is fine but Plushenko with his ice shows is unhealthy. Meh!!! They all make money. They all have jobs. What's the difference?

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Lol, I was about to say the same thing. If they held up someone who left skating entirely (Goebel?), it would make some sense (I still wouldn't agree, since I never cared for this whole "real job" business, but at least it's a valid argument).

karne said:

I worry about Zhenya. The ice is a viable career of course. I like the shows, I like the coaching, I like the phys ed program. What worries me is that he is struggling so badly to leave behind the competition...it is the fact that he seems so unable to go without competing that worries me...his body will not hold on forever

I imagine in 15 years from now, Plushy sitting in the kiss and cry at Worlds with a young boy who has just won, as his coach :yes:

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I understand where you're coming from and there are times when I feel the same. When I saw the first "Plushenko backtracks on retirement" headline, I hoped the reporter had made a mistake. But over the following months, I've come to realize he's probably not thinking, "I'm going to the next Olympics no matter what." I think it's more of a "dare to dream" thing, if I'm making sense.

To be honest, I'm not sure if Plushy is genuinely more addicted to competition than every other skater, or if he was somewhat influenced by the circumstances (poor results of Russian men post-2006, was-he-or-wasn't-he-robbed in Vancouver, 2014 Olympics happening in Russia, the WD and the wave of unfair criticism that followed, the collective meltdown in the men's free program, the operation going very well and the removal of the screws, the realization that he's one step away from breaking two important records...) There are other skaters who kept competing even though it seemed to make no sense--Brian Joubert, for one--but they're not as high profile.

Here's more on the (no) rink situation:

http://www.insideskating.net/2014/1...ympic-gala-in-bucharest-what-a-night-this-was

"Let me tell you just that: the Romanian public is so very lucky, having the privilege to live, for the fifth time since 2007, the joy and the enthusiasm of a truly wonderful figure skating gala. “Kings on Ice” comes regularly to Romania, starring a group of elite skaters – and this is definitely a miracle, given the fact that, at this point, Bucharest does not have an ice rink suited for competitions. Actually, it does not have an ice rink at all, the young Romanian skaters having to train, day by day, in a mall."

Note: Also loads of lovely photos in the article.

The other ice rink wasn't better in 2008.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUrlpIZgMog Plushenko and Surya fixing the ice at Polivalenta, Bucharest . I can't believe Plushy do it himself...

and I found this video from 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcaNzPbcG_8&t=0m3s Look at that smile!!

"@yanarudkovskaya: Incredibly beautiful photo! Thanks to our godmother @yulia_sarkisova for party & gifts for Sasha! http://instagram.com/p/uC97zYFSNV/ "

same photo in Lilyshenka's collage :https://twitter.com/Lily_shenka/status/521255638966345729

I feel very bad for the Romanian skaters. :no: Training in a mall... But we shouldn't forget that MCM comes from a country that only has rinks in malls, and he made it to the Olympics. :yes:

I can't believe Plushy and Surya were fixing the ice themselves...

Sandpiper said:

I feel very bad for the Romanian skaters. :no: Training in a mall... But we shouldn't forget that MCM comes from a country that only has rinks in malls, and he made it to the Olympics. :yes:

I can't believe Plushy and Surya were fixing the ice themselves...

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If you want it done....

plushyfan said:

The other ice rink wasn't better in 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUrlpIZgMog Plushenko and Surya fixing the ice at Polivalenta, Bucharest . I can't believe Plushy do it himself...
and I found this video from 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcaNzPbcG_8&t=0m3s Look at that smile!!

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I remember Oskana Bauil also fixed the ice at her hometown by herself. Oh my... Plushy really loves the ice. Poor Rumanian skaters. They didn't even have the zamboni?