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MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. Russia's two-time Olympic figure skating champion Evgeni Plushenko told Match TV on Friday that he was retiring. The 34-year-old figure skater earlier announced that he would ...

Throughout the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Guggenheim fellowship-winning poet Kwame Dawes will be writing verses that capture the spirit of the day's action. In this installment, the poet looks ...

Four-time Olympic medalist Evgeni Plushenko will have back surgery on March 2. Plushenko, 31, withdrew from the men's figure skating short program at the Sochi Games just days after helping Russia win ...

Evgeni Plushenko's Olympics are over. His competitive career, too. The Russian star retired Thursday just after he withdrew from the men's event at the Sochi Olympics for medical reasons. The ...