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Yevgeni Plushenko won with world record! · 2009-12-25 12:17
Figure skating championship of Russia started in Saint-Petersburg yesterday. The competition was marked by two sensations in men skating!
Yevgeniy Plushenko, the 2006 Olympic champion, shockingly won the short programme! Nobody doubted in his victory but the way he made it was wonderful. When Plushenko finished one element not pure, the spectators were a bit disappointed. But it was the bad ice that was the reason for it. So, judges decided not to lower the points for Plushenko's skating. And when the points were summed, it appeared 
to be that Yevgeniy Plushenko won the competition with the world record ??“ 100,09! Even skater's coach Aleksey Mishin was shocked for a moment. But soon he became passionless again and said that the main start would be in Olympic Games in Vancouver.
Another sensation happened in the last demonstration when Sergei Voronov showed the second result ??“ 95,64! Sergei Voronov is trained by Aleksey Urmanov, the 1994 Olympic champion. The coach was really happy with Voronov's result. And Sergei also looked to be a little surprised. Now Sergei Voronov has good chances to go to the Olympics in 2010 in company with Evgeni Plushenko, Sovetskiy sport reports.
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