OlympicTalk · Jun 2, 2015
Yevgeny Plushenko, Sochi Olympic champions return to Russian figure skating team
Getty ImagesYevgeny Plushenko, a four-time Olympic medalist who hasn’t competed since the Sochi Winter Games, and all of his gold-medal teammates are on the Russia national figure skating roster for next season.
Plushenko, 32, said in April he was returning to competition with an eye on making his fifth Olympic team in 2018. He will train in Turkey starting next week, according to R-Sport.
If Plushenko hopes to make the 2016 World Championships in Boston, he must beat out at least one of Maksim Kovtun and Sergey Voronov, who were second and third at last season’s European Championships but fell to seventh and 13th at Worlds.