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Evgeni Plushenko (born 3 November 1982) is a figure skater from Russia. He was born and raised in the Soviet Union. He is the last of the "Soviet System" figure skaters, which took children from their parents at a young age and raised them in a training system away from home while giving them everything they needed, including housing and food and equipment, so they could become the best.

Plushenko was a very good skater as a child. At age 14, he won the World Junior Championships. At age 15, he won the bronze medal at the World Championships. He has always been coached by Alexei Mishin, a very famous Soviet and Russian skater coach. At the time of Plushenko's rise, Mishin was also coaching Alexei Yagudin. When Yagudin saw all the attention Mishin was giving Plushenko, it made Yagudin leave and find another coach. Plushenko and Yagudin had a very big rivalry that ended in 2002, when Yagudin won the Olympic Gold and Plushenko won the silver.

Between the 2002 Olympics and the 2006 Olympics, Plushenko only lost a competition twice. The first time was to Emanuel Sandhu at the 2003-2004 Grand Prix Final. The second was to Brian Joubert at the 2004 European Championships. Plushenko came close to losing the 2003 World Championships to American Timothy Goebel, but won.

Plushenko withdrew from the 2005 World Championships with injury. But he won the 2006 Olympics with a very big lead over everyone else there.

Plushenko took the 2006-2007 seasons away from skating. He was married and had a child, but he is now getting a divorce. He is trying to come back to competitive skating, but still has a lot of injuries.

Plushenko is known for his consistency and his strong jumping ability. He has done a lot of quadruple jumps in competition and in combination with other jumps. He was the first to do a lot of quadruple-jump combinations. He has also done the Biellmann spin in competition, although he has not done that recently.

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Yevgeny Plushchenko, also spelled Evgeni Plushenko, in full Yevgeny Viktorovich Plushchenko, (born November 3, 1982, Solnechny, Russia, U.S.S.R.), world-champion Russian figure skater and the first athlete to cleanly land the quadruple toe–triple loop and triple axel–half loop–triple flip combinations in competition.

Plushchenko moved with his family to Volgograd when he was a young boy. He began skating at age four after family friends gave him a pair of skates they no longer wanted. It soon became apparent that Plushchenko had a real talent for skating, and he progressed rapidly. In 1993, however, the skating school where he was training closed because, as an aftereffect of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the government could no longer support it. His mother took him to St. Petersburg, where he began working with skating coach Aleksey Mishin at the St. Petersburg Figure Skating School. He was already able to perform the triple jumps roughly, and by the time he was 12 he had perfected them. At age 14 he landed a quad for the first time. He also added the difficult Biellmann spin to his repertoire of moves, one of the few men to perform it.

Plushchenko began competing in 1996 and within a year had won the world junior championships. He then moved into the senior ranks, taking a silver medal at the European championships and a bronze at the world championship in 1998 and the silver at the worlds the following year. In 1999 Plushchenko made history when he executed the first triple axel–half loop–triple flip combination landed cleanly in competition. Although in 2000 he could manage only fourth place at the worlds, he came back in 2001 to win his first world championship gold. Plushchenko took silver at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, but injuries kept him out of the worlds. Later that year, however, at the Cup of Russia competition, he entered the record books once again—this time with the first quad toe–triple loop combination landed cleanly in competition—and in 2003 he regained his world championship title.

Even though he was competing with an injured knee and was facing a number of strong opponents, Plushchenko dominated the three programs of the 2004 world ice-skating championships and won his third title—his second consecutive—with a dazzling free skate marred only by a fall when his skate blade hit a sequin on the ice. In October he commemorated his 10 years of working with Mishin by performing in an exhibition program in St. Petersburg. He dedicated his performances to the victims of the terrorist attack on a school in Beslan, and a portion of the show’s proceeds was channeled to the victims’ families. In 2006 he won his first Olympic gold medal, at the Winter Games in Turin, Italy. Plushchenko took a hiatus of three and a half years from competitive skating after the Turin Games. He returned in 2009 to prepare for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, where he captured a silver medal. Plushchenko won a singles gold medal at the 2012 European championships but skipped the following world championships because of an injury. At the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, he won a gold medal in the new team competition before retiring from the singles event for medical reasons. He retired from competitive skating immediately after his Olympics withdrawal.

 

 

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Тест по теме «Факты о фигурном катании»

1). What sports are skates used in?
2). What is the difference between figure skates?
3). Which skates are divided into hockey?
4). What is the difference between walking skates?
5). What types of steel are there?

A) Alloyed    B). Stainless
С). Carbon      D). High carbon