St. PETERSBURG, February 10, Taras Barabash. Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova said that Russian figure skater Yevgeny Semenenko, after performing at the Beijing Olympics, can be compared with Olympic champions Alexei Yagudin and Evgeny Plushenko. American figure skater Nathan Chen won a gold medal in men's singles at the Beijing Olympics. The best of the Russians was Evgeny Semenenko, who took eighth place. «Our boy, Semenenko, well done. The best started from such places: Lesha (Yagudin), Zhenya (Plushenko),» Tarasova said.
