Prepare for the Olympic Whining of Figure Skater Evgeni Plushenko
Today in Sochi, veteran Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko took the ice in the team skating event. At 31, Plushenko is old for a skater, and the Russian announcers made sure to mention that, over the course of his career, he has had 13 surgeries. His health was so precarious, in fact, that his participation in the Olympics was not decided until very late in the game: according to his coach, Plushenko "still had screws in his back" and the jumps were hard to pull off.
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