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February 25, 2010, Thursday
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EVGENI Plushenko isn't awarding himself a new Olympic medal. Or creating one, for that matter.
Reports on Tuesday said a picture of the Olympic silver medalist's latest prize was labeled "platinum of Vancouver" on Plushenko's official Website. But agent Ari Zakarian said no one had authority to do this "stupid thing," and Plushenko himself was not aware of it. His medal from the Salt Lake City Games was properly identified as silver.
There were no labels beneath the pictures of Plushenko's three Olympic medals later on Tuesday. The Russian also has a gold from the Turin Olympics.
"It's absolutely a mistake. Evgeni has absolutely no idea about this. Absolutely no idea," Zakarian said. "Nobody from our team is awarding a platinum medal."
Plushenko, coach Alexei Mishin and even a few Russian politicians were furious with the results of the men's competition. Plushenko, the heavy favorite, finished second to Evan Lysacek of the United States despite being the only top contender to land a clean quadruple jump.
"Quad is quad. If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump the quad, I don't know," Plushenko said afterward. "Now it's not men's figure skating, it's dancing. That's my point."
But the overall quality of Lysacek's program was better, and the reigning world champion got bonus points for doing five of his eight jumping passes in the second half of the program.
The whining has hurt Plushenko's reputation, with critics saying it's in poor taste and the three-time world champion should be letting Lysacek enjoy his moment.
Plushenko just wants to move on, Zakarian said.
Reports on Tuesday said a picture of the Olympic silver medalist's latest prize was labeled "platinum of Vancouver" on Plushenko's official Website. But agent Ari Zakarian said no one had authority to do this "stupid thing," and Plushenko himself was not aware of it. His medal from the Salt Lake City Games was properly identified as silver.
There were no labels beneath the pictures of Plushenko's three Olympic medals later on Tuesday. The Russian also has a gold from the Turin Olympics.
"It's absolutely a mistake. Evgeni has absolutely no idea about this. Absolutely no idea," Zakarian said. "Nobody from our team is awarding a platinum medal."
Plushenko, coach Alexei Mishin and even a few Russian politicians were furious with the results of the men's competition. Plushenko, the heavy favorite, finished second to Evan Lysacek of the United States despite being the only top contender to land a clean quadruple jump.
"Quad is quad. If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump the quad, I don't know," Plushenko said afterward. "Now it's not men's figure skating, it's dancing. That's my point."
But the overall quality of Lysacek's program was better, and the reigning world champion got bonus points for doing five of his eight jumping passes in the second half of the program.
The whining has hurt Plushenko's reputation, with critics saying it's in poor taste and the three-time world champion should be letting Lysacek enjoy his moment.
Plushenko just wants to move on, Zakarian said.
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