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He wasn't even the best figure skater. He never skated as well as Yagudin did. Yagudin's "Winter" will remain an unsurpassed standard of skill and artistry for male figure skaters for a long time. By the way, remember what happened at the championship for which the now-retired Yagudin prepared a competitor for Plushchenko. It's good that he didn't do that again.

I also love Yagudin. But I love him more for "The Man in the Iron Mask" than for his winter performances. It's something special!
But Plushchenko is better, at least because he has brilliant performances, artistry, and his skating is like a performance on stage.

But Yagudin earned his Olympic "gold" and left. It was as if he admitted that he no longer had the strength or anything else to compete.

In general, it's a long and, in my opinion, pointless debate... Both of them have their fans and admirers.

Plushenko's artistry is somewhat superficial – his facial expressions and hand movements, but this is the easiest and most understandable for the average person. He isn't particularly successful in expressing emotions and feelings with his whole body, unlike Yagudin. To put it simply, Plushenko is a poser. And that's precisely why people love him. It's a paradox...

He won everything he could, and there was objectively no one for him to compete against. Plushenko stayed, because he really wanted that famous Olympic "gold."

Both have fans and admirers, but we're talking about who was the better ATHLETE, not the better SHOWMAN.

Well, I certainly don't agree with almost any of this. But as they say, there's no accounting for taste... So, I won't argue unnecessarily. Is that okay?

It was absolutely right that Plushchenko stayed, because he is simply younger than Yagudin.
I haven't liked Alexei since he went to Tarasova, who made him a champion (in those years, she had access to the best training facilities), while Zhenya stayed with his mother in a communal apartment where alcoholics lived behind the plywood wall. Plushchenko forged himself, Tarasova created Yagudin, so as an athlete, I like Zhenya more. And he deserved his gold!!!!

:smile04: Valuev

Regarding Schumacher... Well, in the last 5 years, he won the championship when he clearly had a better car than his rivals, and the rivals themselves were not as strong. Therefore, I don't consider him better than Prost and Senna, who won the same 7 titles between them, competing with each other, plus they had drivers like Piquet, Mansell, and others competing with them.

But with that phrase about the clearly strongest car for 5 years in a row, you completely destroyed the argument: either you're just a Schumacher hater (he annoyed many people, there's no denying it), or you don't really understand Formula 1...