Plushy's yesterday interview for TV "Dozhd"....
Translation of this short russian transcript "Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin) said, "Zhenya, get well soon!"
"I really do not exclude the possibility that I will return to the sport. But I'm not going to rush this time"
"When I came on CNN, I said that I need a translator. But there was no translator."
"I am an athlete. When they put me in the framework of "you should skate", I said: "I will skate"."
"Everyone thinks that I have influence at Russian Skating Federation. I'm an ordinary athlete, who came to the Olympic Games"
"Federation called Maxim Kovtun. What happened, I do not know. I do not want to go into details."
"You want me to artificially made trauma, compromit (jeopardize) my name, to be Kovtun went?"
"Long ago I could retire from the sport. I have everything. I went to the Olympics not because of finances."
"Stadium always greets me with standing ovation. Because people love me. And I love them."
"Many people do not understand that we have only one man which could go to the Olympics, because last year our guys were bad at Worlds"
"And my mom and my friends told me: "Zhenya, finish, you do not need a medal." I said I want to make something unreal"
"If I initiated injury and withdraw for Kovtun, russian team would lose 19 points."
"Kolya Valuev has insulted me. There is the element of betrayal. Apparently, the State Duma stirring up the brain."
"What gold, what bronze? Kovtun would not have won any medal. At best, he would be 6th."
"After Vancouver we were with the Federation in negative relationships. There was no support, there was no funding."
"At the Olympics, I was most impressed with Viktor An."
"There are people, which are gays. It is their position. It's not your job to forbid them" - Plushenko about his conflict with the politician Milonov.
"I was sitting in the Duma and thought: I hope this will end soon. It's not mine place."
Sobchak: "People have spent money, to denigrate you?" Plushenko: "Of course. There is a rivalry in figure skating."
Sobchak: "To whom is most advantageous to denigrate Plushenko?" Plushenko: "We have rivals: Ilya Averbukh & Co."
"I wanted to finally drive my tour in Russia. When all this happened, they did everything, that I postponed this tour"
"Now I need to undergo surgery, recover slowly. I do not want to make predictions. But the tour will
be necessarily!"
The medal collection of Evgeni Plushenko
http://pic.twitter.com/vm3l42G3pw