Word: plushenko
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...side, either Alexei Yagudin, a three-time world champion, or teammate Evgeny Plushenko, the reigning world gold medalist, will probably keep up the Russian men's gold streak. Yagudin, who trains in the U.S., is a passionate performer and is eager to redeem his fifth-place finish in Nagano. Plushenko is just as talented but far less polished. While his music and choreography are often disjointed, he is the only male to lasso one leg up and behind his head and hold this position during a spin...
Even solo performers have provoked consternation with novel choreography. Flamboyant Russian men's champion Yevgeny Plushenko's free program at the Skate Canada contest in November included sexy gyrations that some observers have called "scandalous," and provoked a Canadian official to grumble: "He was wiggling his all, three foot away from the judging panel . . . That's not sport...
...side, either Alexei Yagudin, a three-time world champion, or his teammate Evgeni Plushenko, the reigning world gold medalist, will probably keep up the golden streak of Russian champions established in the past three Winter Games. Yagudin, who trains in the U.S., is a passionate performer and is eager to redeem his fifth-place finish in Nagano, where he was laid low by the flu. Plushenko is just as accomplished but far less polished. His program music is usually a bewildering pastiche of movie sound tracks, and the choreography is just as disjointed, but he never fails to impress with...