Beijing time on April 1 news, the Winter Olympics figure skating men's singles champion, Russia's "ice prince" reputation of Yevgeny Plushenko announced through the Russian Match-TV on March 31 that he will end his sports career and will not participate in next year's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. In the future he will become a coach.
Pushshenko announced his retirement shortly after the men's singles short program competition at the 2017 Figure Skating World Championships, and two Russian players ranked seventh and tenth. Some speculate that Proshenko retired in anger because of the poor performance of the Russian men's singles.
Pruschenko, 34, later denied the claim in an interview with another media outlet: "My decision to retire has nothing to do with the performance of the Russian men's singles at the World Championships. ”
"I'm going to start a new career, become a coach and continue my career in figure skating."
Proshenko has competed in three Olympic Games, winning two golds and two silvers – the men's singles champion at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the team title at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, and the runner-up in men's singles at both Salt Lake City in 2002 and Vancouver in 2010. He also won the Men's Singles World Championships in 2001, 2003 and 2004 and won the European Championship seven times.
As he grew older, Pushshenko was plagued by injuries and withdrew from the men's singles competition at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics due to injury.