Evgeni Plushenko performs in the men's figure skating team free program at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the Sochi Winter Olympics, Feb. 9, 2014.

Longtime Russian figure skating star Evgeni Plushenko announced his intention to retire from competitive skating after being forced to withdraw from the men's singles event at the 2014 Winter ...

It's crunch time for Evgeni Plushenko, a Russian Olympic figure skater and beloved athlete, who had the 13th major spinal surgery of his career last year and nearly had to sit out this year's ...

Evgeni Plushenko is one of those athletes, times infinity. UPDATE: Plushenko has out of the men's figure skating event due to medical concerns.

Remember how yesterday Evgeni Plushenko pulled out of the Olympics just before the men's skating competition was to begin? The world saw images of a hobbling, pain-pinched Plushenko missing his ...

Four days after helping Russia win gold, skating legend Evgeni Plushenko takes heat in homeland for dropping out of Sochi Games ...

On March 2nd, Plushenko will have surgery to repair a screw that snapped which supported a disk in his back. Some of his countrymen criticized Plushenko for withdrawing from the individual skate.

Vancouver, British Columbia — Evgeny Plushenko and his coach, Alexei Mishin, carped all week about men’s skaters who do not try a quadruple jump, insisting such athletes are Neanderthals ...

Russian Evgeni Plushenko won the Olympic Gold in the men's figure skating championship Thursday night. American Johnny Weir, who was favored to win the silver, turned in a surprisingly flat ...

Reporting from Vancouver, Canada — Evgeni Plushenko and his coach, Alexei Mishin, carped all week about men’s skaters who do not attempt a quadruple jump, insisting such athletes are ...

MOSCOW — Evgeni Plushenko predicts that next month’s Olympic figure-skating competition in Pyeongchang, South Korea, will be the best ever. Citing the proliferation of quad jumps among the men ...