TURIN, Italy, Feb. 14 -- Russian figure skating coach Alexei Mishin grabbed hold of the sleeve of Evgeni Plushenko after his near-perfect performance in the Olympic men's figure skating short ...

A few men, including the silver medalist Plushenko, attempted a quad, but the difficult jump didn’t guarantee a medal. While the new complex point system that judges figure skating has been ...

TALLINN, Estonia Yet another gold medal was in his possession, and with a sly smile, Yevgeny Plushenko extended his right arm and let his hand tremble. The hand represented his rivals at the ...

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Yevgeny Plushenko accused his rivals of not moving with the times but Evan Lysacek cracked the code to the new scoring system to win Olympic gold and show it was the Russian ...

See About archive blog posts. Ottavio Cinquanta of Italy, president of the International Skating Union, thinks Evgeni Plushenko’s attitude toward skating makes him like a virtuoso pianist who ...

Once again, just as I predicted, Evgeni Plushenko is kicking up scandal at the Olympics. Just minutes before the men's figure skating competition was scheduled to start, Plushenko has pulled out ...

SOCHI, Russia -- Instead of competing, Evgeni Plushenko took a curtain call. The Russian withdrew from the men's event at the Sochi Olympics on Thursday after aggravating his chronically bad back ...

The golden boy of Russian Winter Olympic sports Evgeni Plushenko is at the center of a whodunnit mystery in Sochi. Was the four-time Olympian told to compete by the Russian skating federation ...

Two-time gold medallist Yevgeny Plushenko dramatically announced his retirement from figure skating after withdrawing from the Winter Olympics with a back injury on Thursday in a move which ...

Plushenko fell while trying to execute a triple axel Plushenko is a 2006 Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion Florent Amodio of France keads ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Russian star ...

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - With two high-scoring quads planned for Thursday's free skate, Yevgeny Plushenko has been strutting around Vancouver with the air of a man who already has the men's figure ...