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@whitebamboo
Not sure about Mishin, but I'm sure Plushy considers figure skating one of the great creations of mankind. (I laugh, but it's probably true). For most people, the confusion comes from, "He already is a pioneer, what more does he want to do?!" I suspect, for Plushy, competition isn't suffering, even with the injuries (see: 2013 interview British Eurosport). I thought he might back off after how close he came to never skating again, but that ultimately got outweighed by how much he doesn't want his final Olympics to be WD.
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Indeed. I actually happened to see one of Mishin's earlier quotes (from before Sochi) again last night. One of the things he said as, a comparistion, was "Why does a baby gets up from all fours and start walking?" So if I try to stretch the interpretation a bit, maybe he considers it right up there with the evolutionary development of human bipedalism