For everyone's convenience, here's the Google Translate of the paragraph where Yana talks about Ultra-C (yes, Google thinks Yana is a man named Ian, apparently):
Just judging from this statement, sounds like it's not so much that he wants more hardware, but that he thinks he still has more things to show. If he had skated his dream LP in Sochi, perhaps he would've retired? (Everyone else would say he already had his dream LP a decade ago, but don't try telling him that).
Lol at all the NEWS! headlines! They sound like they'd belong right at home in a gossip magazine. My own: NEWS! Plushenko's wife sends death threat to haterz everywhere!
Before Sochi, I think Plush was adamant that it would be his last competition. But he did bring up the possibility of 2018 after the Team Event (when he said, "Why not?" when asked--I think he was joking though ). A combination of the screw derailing his plans and his realization of how close he came to breaking Grafstrom's record...
I both understand and don't understand. I don't understand because my brain says, on a very basic level, more quads is crazy. But I understand because... this is what skating--what sport--means to him.
My best guess: Ultra-C refers to things he has done in practice but never showed in competition. So perhaps he'd like to do the quads he once had in practice (salchow, lutz, loop?) along with "new things" (more COP-friendly programs?).- Ian, you can now specify precisely which elements ultra-si talking about?
- Zhenya now there are many "chips" that only Pre-Olympic rush home on the eve of the Olympics prevented show during public appearances. For example, set on a lutz "polubilmana", and much more. He can jump two different quads - toe loop and Salchow, left there is, in principle, and a quad lutz. But he is determined, of course, not only to restore what he knew he could, but also learn new things.
Just judging from this statement, sounds like it's not so much that he wants more hardware, but that he thinks he still has more things to show. If he had skated his dream LP in Sochi, perhaps he would've retired? (Everyone else would say he already had his dream LP a decade ago, but don't try telling him that).
Well, if we go by the old adage "history repeats itself," then his comeback indeed looks more plausible now than it did in 2008. And, older fans correct me, but wasn't he running around with just 3T and 2A in shows from 2006 to 2009? He's actually much closer to competition shape now than he was during his first retirement.What is funny now is that people may believe more that he is serious about staying in competition as they did in the run for 2010 oly ....
Lol at all the NEWS! headlines! They sound like they'd belong right at home in a gossip magazine. My own: NEWS! Plushenko's wife sends death threat to haterz everywhere!
Before Sochi, I think Plush was adamant that it would be his last competition. But he did bring up the possibility of 2018 after the Team Event (when he said, "Why not?" when asked--I think he was joking though ). A combination of the screw derailing his plans and his realization of how close he came to breaking Grafstrom's record...
I both understand and don't understand. I don't understand because my brain says, on a very basic level, more quads is crazy. But I understand because... this is what skating--what sport--means to him.