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前几天，从一位姐姐那里得到了一则关于小熊的最新消息：由于持续不断的臀伤困扰，小熊已经考虑与SOI续约一年后彻底结束自己的花滑生涯。
当我还沉浸在Japan Open中见到他的喜悦，还梦想着能够亲眼看一次他的表演时，离别竟来的这么突然这么快。
4年前，无情的伤病迫使他离开了业余赛场；4年后，依然是这可恨的臀伤，再次让他在26岁的年龄就要作出结束滑冰生涯的决定。
忘不了4年前的盐湖城，带给我无限遐想的Winter,无数感动的MITIM；忘不了那精妙绝伦的舞步，风华绝代的表演，就象璀璨绚丽的焰火照亮了那个寒冷阴霾的冬日。
是否太完美就会招来上天的嫉恨？那给我无数憧憬和感动的人竟然再也没能见到。我一次次的在报纸的字里行间，在新闻的只言片语里寻找他的踪迹，却只能一次次的失望。而再次见面时，不曾想竟是告别。我还没来得及为相见而喜悦就已品尝到了离别的苦涩。
如果说4年前的离别是为了更长时间的相会，那这一次的离别将是永远的离开。那意味着我将再也不能在冰场看到他的身影，再也不能为他的精彩表演而欢呼雀跃，甚至难以得到关于他的哪怕是只言片语的消息。
也许对小熊而言，这样是最好的选择。伤痛时时刻刻的折磨，演出的奔波劳累，对他的身体健康已经构成了威胁。作为一个skater，他已留给冰坛那么多的精彩，留给我那么多美好的回忆，他做得已经太多太多。该是他好好休息养伤，享受生活的时候了。只要知道他好，我又有什么关系呢？
也许我终究还是不能那么豁达，也许我已经开始练习接受那一刻的真正到来。2003年漫长的等待后得来的心碎消息仿佛就在昨天，我已开始准备迎接再一次的心碎了。
Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin quits top competitive
figure skating circuit
Canadian Press
Thursday, October 30, 2003
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin, who announced Thursday that he’s bowing out of the top competitive level of figure skating, will perform following the MasterCard Skate Canada International meet’s exhibition gala Sunday afternoon. "Alexei asked for the opportunity to show his appreciation to all the Canadian fans who have supported his amateur career in Canada," said Pam Coburn, CEO of Skate Canada. "He has always enjoyed Canadian audiences."
Yagudin will skate Sunday in the Hershey Centre and a special ceremony will be held to honour his achievements.
Yagudin, 23, won world titles in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002, when in Nagano, Japan, he became the first skater to receive six perfect marks for a short program. In winning gold at the Salt Lake City Winter Games in 2002, he got the highest marks ever received by a single skater in Olympic history.
In an announcement out of New York by Dmitri Goryachkin, his agent, Yagudin said he was leaving the Olympic-eligible ranks "to pursue new challenges in his skating career."
"I have climbed all the mountains in amateur figure skating and now I am looking to find new mountains in life to push me each day," stated Yagudin. "My love for this sport and my desire to do something new for it are unsurpassed.
"I have so many interesting ideas and projects that will be keeping me extremely busy and I am really looking forward to new challenges." Doug Leigh, a former coach of three-time world champion Elvis Stojko, always admired Yagudin’saggressive nature on the ice.
"Yagudin, very simply, was a no-nonsense skater," said Leigh. "Every time there was a competition, count him in. "He knew what it was like to stand on top of the podium and he didn’t like being off of it. And he knew what it took each time he came to an event to find what his best was. That was an unbelievable strength he had. He was a guy who, like Elvis would say, pushed the envelope. Every time there was a competition, he made it very special."
Richard Callaghan, who coached American Todd Eldredge in many competitions in which Yagudin skated, echoed others in describing the charismatic Russian as one of the most crowd pleasing athletes in the sport.
"Alexei brought to the forefront a great combination of athletic ability and tremendous entertainment," said Callaghan. "He skated from his soul and he always brought the crowd into his numbers."
Evgeni Plushenko, who is competing in the men’s event this week, is the reigni | 
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