At the Winter Olympics, two players from the same national team can often be seen competing for medals in the final, among which the duel between "Ice Prince" Pushshenko and Yagukin at the 2002 Winter Olympics is an eternal classic, both from Russia, while Yagujin and Prushchenko are out of the same door. Today we will review the game that made the "Ice Prince" Pushshenko regret and Yagukin successfully won the championship to avenge.
The division is out of the same door
Yagujin is three years older than Pushshenko, and their mentor is the legendary coach Mission, the coach who once brought out the 1994 Winter Olympics figure skating champion Umanov.
However, at that time, Mission did not give Pruschenko much opportunity and time to cultivate, because he had many disciples, including Yagujin, who was yagujin's proud protégé at that time and was focused on cultivation.
In 1997, Pushchenko began to show his talent, he won the World Youth Championship, and at the age of 14 he became the youngest winner in the history of the World Youth Championship.
In 1998, Proshenko defended his title as World Youth Champion and won the silver medal by beating some of the world's top athletes at the American Grand Prix.
The relationship drops to the freezing point
That is, from 1998, as brothers in arms, Yagukin and Plushenko began to duel, from the Russian domestic arena to the World Series. During this period, the two won and lost each other.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Prushchenko failed to pass the auditions and failed to qualify for the Olympics. Yagujin, who participated in the competition, also only finished 5th because of the mistake of free skating, which also made the two look forward to the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
Prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Mission had begun to focus on developing Proshenko, who also performed strongly in 2001, winning the Grand Prix Finals, the Russian National Championships, the European Championships, the World Championships and the three Grand Prix single skating championships, four of which were all defeated by Yagukin.
Yagujin was considered to have a poor psychological quality of the competition because of the Olympic folding and the World Championships, and was gradually abandoned by Mission. So Yagujin broke with his mentor Mishen and defected to Tarasova.
At the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, on the men's single figure skating field, Prushchenko and Yagukin faced off head-to-head, and the contradiction between the two was already very deep at this time, and they never greeted each other when they met.
Short program mistakes
2001 was dubbed the "Year of Proshenko" and he swept the major awards of figure skating. Proshenko has a lot of attention in the Winter Olympics, and of course he is under a lot of pressure.
For the short show, Plushenko was eager to succeed, hoping to secure a leading position, only to make mistakes.
Proshenko performed a series of tricks such as "4-3-2", resulting in frequent mistakes, and the final ranking was 4th among all the contestants in the short program.
Yagukin, who has experienced consecutive defeats, is steady, and he ranks first after ending the short program.
Because of the 4th place in the mistakes of the short program, Prushchenko has reached the point of desperately fighting, and his performance of "Carmen" is quite perfect, and it has been regarded as a classic until now, and it has also scored a high score: 9 referees have given a maximum of 5.9 points.
Yagujin's performance of the song is still "The Man in the Iron Mask", as a more experienced veteran, and the short program has established an advantage, but also makes Yagujin's interpretation more calm and excellent. He beat Plushchenko again, scoring 9 5.9 points in his technical skills and 4 perfect 6.0 points for artistic expression in 9 referees, in addition to scoring 5 5.9 points.
In the end, Yagukin won the gold medal, and although Proshenko rose in the ranking because of the free skating "Carmen", he also missed the championship and won the silver medal.
No chance of revenge
In many world competitions, Plushenko defeated Yagukin, but only lost in the Winter Olympics, which he valued most, because of mistakes, he achieved the highlight moment of his old opponent. So Proshenko's remark at the time was: "I have everything, but I don't have a winter Olympic gold medal."
In 2003, Yagujin retired due to injuries and other reasons, picked up the coaching whip, and trained young players. Plushenko also had no chance to take revenge on the Winter Olympics.
Successfully win the championship
Although Yagukin retired, Proshenko stormed the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and before the start of the games, it was recognized as one of the most suspenseless events in the Winter Olympics.
In the end, Plushenko lived up to expectations and won the gold medal, and his free-skating performance of the track was the "Godfather" soundtrack, which was vividly performed and became a classic in the eyes of everyone, realizing the dream of the Winter Olympic champion.
This is the story of Yagujin and Pushshenko who were the same door and brothers in the same year, but the contradictions deepened in the later period, the winner of the Winter Olympics is obviously Yagujin, but The influence of Pushshenko is undoubtedly greater, and he is also the idol of Yusei Yushin and others.