The 12,000-capacity Iceberg Skating Palace was more than half-empty when Plushenko first took to the ice for his warm-up before the start of the team event, which is making its Olympic debut.
Although more fans had filed into the arena by the time he took to the ice for his performance, Russian officials would have noted that thousands of seats around the arena remained empty for one of the Winter Olympics' blue-riband events.
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