Outspoken and flamboyant Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko won gold in Turin in and has since gone in and out of retirement before returning to Vancouver in an attempt to be the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in figure skating since Dick Button did it in and Sarah Morris from the L. Times blog had a different take:. Plushenko came into the Olympic competition over confident. No other skater can jump like Plushenko. Though Thursday night he had many awkward take-off jumps, he always landed on one foot.
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Everybody loves to root for their home country during the Olympics, but sometimes, an athlete so amazing and strange comes along that you have to switch countries for a night and put on your expat hat. Evgeni Plushenko is one of those athletes, times infinity. He landed badly during a warm-up session just before the competition and appeared to be in great pain.