Alexei Yagudin

This post is created to the man who made me dream with his talent, passion and power. He is the man who made me love ice skating and to which I'll always be faithful.
Alexei Yagudin gave to ice skating something that none else will never be able to give, his enormous talent. Try to watch one youtube any video of his Olimpic programs, from Winter to Man in the Iron Mask. To all the ice skating fans who are arguing to decide who is better between Lisacek and Evgeni Plushenko, I just tell you, go and watch Alexei Yagudin, then you will understand that you are arguing for nothing as Alexei gave to this sport everything that could be given. His short carreer is like a shining comet.
I've always thought that Alexei has been very misfortunate, he had a problem in his knee that made him stop when he was just 23, and when he was 18 he participated to his first Olimpics but reached only the fifth place because he got a cold before his long program. But in 2002 there where in Salt Lake City him a nd Plushenko... Alexei reported the golden medal in all the competitions of the year. He's the only one that got the maximum of the points in all the programs.
I like very much Evgeni Plushenko(he's the last representative of the russian generation of huge talents, all the other skaters mean nothing to me), but I have to say that I absolutely prefer Alexei Yagudin.

  

To the little shiny star that made me become Savannah, the girl on ice.