cekoni wrote:http://www.rg.ru/2009/07/06/plushenko.html
"Российская газета" - Центральный выпуск №4945 (121) от 6 июля 2009 г.
Николай Долгополов, Кортона (Италия)
Под Плющенко лед не треснет
Спортсмен, признанный "легендой" Белых олимпиад, собирается побороться за "золото" Ванкувера ...
... translation... rainisland and cekoni
(btw... this interview was conducted at the end of June and 1st July )
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written by Nikolai Dolgopolov, Cortona (Italy)
"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" - no. 4945 (121) from July 6, 2009
Under Plushenko the ice will not burst
The sportsman, recognized "the legend" of the White olympics will fight for "gold" in Vancouver
Evgeni Plushenko, it’s not a secret anymore, will returns in an amateur sport, for another Olympic gold. Photo: Victor Vasenin
A few days ago, early-early morning we faced nose to nose at the airport Sheremetyevo-2.
Evgeny Plushenko is also invited to a celebration in Cortona, Italy, where the prize was awarded "Legend of Sport" from the International Committee of "Fair Play benefactor". But along with the bride Yana Rudkovskova, he rushed to the plane, and not in Italy. Kisses, moved a pair of phrases.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Zhenya, you lost a lot of weight?
Evgeny Plushenko: That’s right, thanks to that observation. I was almost near to "fighting" weight. Just a little bit, and again I am in full standards.
RG: And, if not a secret, where are you flying with Yana?
Plushenko: In Stockholm until the end of the week, and then going on a full train.
RG: You are still with Mishin - and how are you?
Plushenko: Yes, with Alexei Nikolayevich and our team. All plans are in preparation, we have adopted with president of the Federation, Valentin Nikolaevich Piseev's. We are ready, and not bad. If you want to see, come to St. Petersburg. Well’back there in August, if you want to see my new programs.
RG: It is a pity, of course, that you can not get to Italy to receive award, but I want you happy flying to Stockholm.
Plushenko: It's a pity, but what to do. And I want you soft flight.
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And a couple of days later, late in the night, Zhenya in the evening dresses and Yana in swift dress below knee, suddenly appeared to me in the square Sinorelli (Cortona, Italy). After his victory at Turin, in Italy – he begun a national hero, and whole square charged with people, applauded to him - the new "Legend's of Sport", even maybe and stronger, than their.
That same night, Zhenya fly away. While waiting for a car, I managed to ask him some questions.
RG: Why you again fly back to Stockholm?
Plushenko: I was dragged out to half-day from Italians. I could not refuse them. In Stockholm I have a contract, which was find Yana. Left a little more work, and all obligations to the well-known brands are made.
RG: How does preparing for the season?
Plushenko: Here is my report. Like the years before the Games in Turin, was with Alexei Nikolayevich I went through full camp's in Estonia. Good training!
RG: Your manager Ari Zakarian told, that on one of the shows you have made a quadruple jump and several triple in the cascade.
Plushenko: And he will not deceive. What else talked you about me?
RG: That you are preparing new long and short programs, and your friend the violinist and composer Edvin Martin helps you. He created Tango for long, and help with arrangement of Schubert's for short. (Schubert ?! )
Plushenko: It is these ideas Mishin, I and team cherishes.
RG: Zhenya, come on seriously. You WILL compete at the Olympic Games in Vancouver?
Plushenko: Where are too serious. Exactly, I decided come back. And do so with the approval and filing of my bride Yana. Many things had to be abandoned. Rhetorical question: it's hard? The simple answer is: certainly. But I have only 26, and I decided to come back. In the past year failed, this year - exactly. Only that nothing jabot.
RG: And what, briefly, is the training program?
Plushenko: It approved from the Federation. First or later, maybe I confuse, competitions in Perm or Samara. This is a small Russian tournaments, to understand even in September, at the judges and audience, as I was ready. If you are not able to 7 September in one, I go later on another. Then, if God will want it, the world's Grand Prix awards at "Rostelecom" ...
RG: This year, Moscow Grand Prix on the timing earlier than usual. And you have a wedding. You hear, what some say? Some say that it will not, you lifted her, the sake of the preparations for the Olympics ...
Plushenko: Tell to "some", marriage will be 12 September. I even joked: invited whole Italian square of the marriage. A pleasant, because me in Italy, love at home. I am a here and feel.
RG: And where will be prepared after Stockholm?
Plushenko: Already next week in Italy. Maybe, will come here, also and our colleagues from the Federation.
RG: What do you expect from Vancouver?
Plushenko: If anything is not expected, why go back? I really want to win. And it is the truth - very, very seriously. In the meantime, all the greetings! Yana, this is our car? What is time?
RG: Soon the clock on the square beated midnight.
Plushenko: And we in the four morning, must leave to the airport. Meet, as agreed in August in St. Petersburg. You will see my new programs.
RG: And again: happily fly!