This article was posted on the Plushenko thread and it's about Javier, his future goals and his thoughts on Plushenko's comeback, so I thought of posting it here. The rough translation is below:
The Spanish skater Javier Fernandez assured this Friday that his biggest motivation now is getting an Olympic Medal in Pyeonchang in 2018, clearly stating that he will work for the gold that he considers is “at reach” if he follows “the same pace” these next three years.
“Being the Olympic Champion is the highest you can get. The games are something extreme and another dream, I really want a medal. I’ll work for the gold, but I don’t know if I’ll get it. It’s going to be tough but I think it’s at reach, if I work hard those 3 years and at the same pace I’ve been going I can get it.”
He also recognized that the Summer Games are “a lot bigger” and that that is something he wants to change too, but he doesn’t know if a medal in that event “would change anything” for his sport, “which is not that well-known”.
About his great success in Shanghai a month ago, he confessed he had a “weird sensation” when he realized he was the World Champion. “You can’t believe it. When you set yourself a goal and achieve it you are proud of yourself, but when it's a dream and you achieve it, you need time to believe it and that's what happened to me.”
“At the FS, I ended up 2nd, but when they added the SP and I saw myself in the 1st place I was surprised. I don’t remember and had to watch the video, and it wasn’t until then that I said “My God””, he remembers with a smile. (I guess he’s talking about the goat sounds?)
Apart from that, the 3-time European Champion confessed there was a moment of doubt after winning Worlds. “I asked myself: 'Now what happens next? What do I have to do? Do I keep skating, do I drop it…’ I didn’t know what was going to happen and then I thought that if you have one gold, why not two, if you have 3 Europeans, why not four, and specially the Games, they’re the main goal I have in my head”, he outlined.
At Worlds, during the FS, he had a small mistake, but the Spanish skater said that, when they compete, they are scared of “having a bad program” and not of falling. “It’s what makes us nervous, we leave everything on the table in 4 minutes”, he pointed out.
“NOBODY WILL WIN AS MUCH AS PLUSHENKO HAS"
The Madrid athlete faced his program with "a small chance" of becoming the champion and pointed out that his coach, Brian Orser, knew it too. "But he didn't want to tell me", he clarified.
"When it was my turn I thought the first and second were way ahead of me, because two of the best of the world had skated before and we don't know what they do because we don't watch it. It was a little hard, but I forgot about it and completed it (the routine) perfectly. In this sport, the important thing is to have a mistake and try to do the best you can to balance it out a bit. If the rest of the components are great, it gets even."
On the other hand, he didn’t see the comeback of Russian Evgeni Plushenko with bad eyes. “Nobody as going to get as much as he has. Is like we were talking about Nadal, who has won it all and is still going and going. He’s had a lot of injuries, surgeries, back problems, but he wants to keep going. He’s a high level skater and if he works hard, he can get on the podium with 32 or 33 years of age, so I’ve got to train knowing that if he comes back, he can’t pass me”, he evaluated. (Not sure about what this means, but I guess it’s kind of like meaning he doesn’t want to be defeated by him? Idk)
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So it seems like he had a moment of doubt about retiring after he won Worlds
but now he seems pretty decided on going until 2018. I'm glad for him, there is still so much he can do for this beautiful sport in Spain.
so many events he attended, and there is new article about him for our Spanish users 
