He will face Fernandez at Euros anyway and the third Japanese man wont even go to Worlds(Kozuka ), unless you mean he is passed by Mura. For now he has the 4th personal total score and thats from Sheffield where his sp score sth like low 84 so maybe he is not top three but still quite competitive for Worlds.No surprise, but I am a little disapointed he won't skate at world's. It's like he knows he has been passed by three Japanese men, Fernadez and a Canadian named Chan
Evgeni Plushenko won his tenth title at the 2013 Russian National Figure Skating Championships in Sochi. Sergei Voronov came in second, 12 points behind Plushenko, while Konstantin Menshov pulled up from sixth place to win the bronze.
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Well, of course he wins! Good going, Plushenko.
I don't know whether at this point he's in contention for an international medal, but he's going to give it everything he has for as long as he can
He won Euros just a year ago and he is no worse now, I think his chances for a Euro medal are high.
I love Plushenko but I think he can no longer compete with the top tier of men (Chan, Dai, Hanyu). The quality of his jumps, his choreography, and his transitions are nowhere near the top 3. I think that, because Sochi is in Russia, he could get PCS on par with those skaters with the home country scoring. However, he is going to lose a lot of ground to those guys on GOE of the jumps and spins.
Even with Olympics in Sochi he is not going to get 9s in PCS like Chan and Takahashi are easily capable of, or probably even high 8s like Hanyu is capable of. Not a chance.
Yes Olympia, I m going, it was not sure but i knew many people will go and i got jealous so I booked my ticket a month ago and I got all around ticket, so I ll be watching from pairs short
my statistics so far are that every time I go to a competition Plushy wins