http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/34669511.09.2009.
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http://www.sovsport.ru/s/issue_page/pdf/75...df?t=1252613120Plushenko fell, but won!
Yesterday Evgeni Plushenko confidently won his first start after returning to sports - the first stage of the "St. Petersburg's Cup", held at the "Academy of Figure Skating", write our correspondent Oleg Alekseev.The second competition day ... especially impressionable people every quarter of an hour, running to the information desk: look, if someone not crossed their idol, Evgeni Plushenko, from the list of participants? The fears proved unfounded. Approximately 17:30, Plushenko went for warmup's. Together with Andrei Lutay, Konstantin Menshov's and Belarusians Alexander Kazakov.
I meet in the corridor, next to the rink, very concentrated Alexei Mishin's, coach of champion.
- "How much will quadruples today?"... "You'll see" - parries coach.
Performance Menshov's, the audience is welcomed with ovation. Judge for yourself: pure cascade of quadruple and double toe loops, excellent single quadruple toe loop, triple axel good ... Only in the ending, Menchov slightly simplified program. Still, the amount of 210.83 - the result of European level.
In another of our book, Andrey Lutay's, the program had no luck: fall on a triple axel, a single attempt a quadruple ... However, a year before, Andrey scored form only to the main competitions.
But then came the turn of Evgeni Plushenko. The first beat of the music (by author Edvin Marton), entrance to the jumps: an excellent quadruple toe loop, «buckled» with him a triple - also pure ... And here stands gasped: Plushenko decided to maximize the difficulty, and added in a cascade third jump - double ritberger. And fell on the exit. Well, nothing scary.
Plushenko, as if nothing had happened, went to the second quadruple. It happened the second blot - touching with hand ice, during exit.
Evgeni, angry at himself, performed the remaining elements flawlessly. Although it was noticeable, that the last spins he make with difficulty.
Total points Plushenko's for september - 259.14 - results are encouraging.
September 12, Evgeni waiting wedding with Yana Rudkovskaya. A few weeks later another check start - the second stage of the "Russian Cup" in Perm. Honeymoon Evgeni have to postpone ...