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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Ovechkin in 8 minutes of closing ceremony

All Sport agency:At the closing ceremony of XXI Olympic Winter Games, eight minutes will be devoted to the presentation of Sochi, the Russian city where the 2014 Winter Games to take place.

The presentation of Sochi 2014 will carry the concept of "The past, the present and the future of the national sport".

Our illustrious past will be represented by three-times Olympic champions Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretiak.

The present: the Olympic medalist Evgeny Plushenko and Alexander Ovechkin who participated in the Olympics-2006 and 2010, but not yet won a single medal.



Alex Ovechkin and Alyonka Larionov via Yahoo! Sports


The beautiful future will be shown by the children of Ekaterina Gordeeva and Igor Larionov.

Gordeeva's children are 17-year-old Daria (the father - two-time Olympic champion Sergei Grinkov, who died during training in 1995) and 8-years-old Elizabeth (her father is Olympic figure skating champion Ilya Kulik).

Larionov's children (and his wife's, two-time World junior's champion in figure skating Elena Batanova) are 22-year-old Alena, 18-year-old Diana and 11-year-old Igor.

Source: www.allsportinfo.ru/


Diana was born in Vancouver and is rooting for team Canada, according to Igor's interview to SovSport. Not today, Diana, please. :-)





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6 comments:

Field Reporter Emily said...

Russia doesn't deserve you, Alex, but they can see that and your outlook and your authenticity and your energy are the future of the nation.

Perhaps they'll prove themselves worthy of your faith in them.

Anonymous said...

Plushenko has won two medals (not 'none' as the article states) and Larionov's daughter's name is Alyonka, not Alena. Either it's translated wrong or the original article needed some fact-checking.

tj said...

Alyonka is diminutive of Alena.

bg said...

This is probably going to sound really catty, but....I don't quite understand why Alena is part of the ceremonies, besides her father. Didn't she bomb on American Idol and now works at some po-dunk TV station in Pittsburgh? I just found it odd that she's part of the future of Russia when she's just as American as me unless I'm thinking of the wrong person...

Anonymous said...

Ovie is chilling with the children in the closing ceremony ;)

mkat83 said...

Well, Ovie waved and looked happy. It was a small role, but at least he got to be a part. Was he carrying the flag or not? I never did see who was carrying the flag, but I assume it wasn't Ovie. Too bad he probably can't go out, relax and have a good time tonight. I would assume he'll be heading back to DC very early tomorrow.