NHL’s Washington Capitals’ captain Alex Ovechkin enjoyed Olympics with girlfriend Maria Kirilenko
Alex Ovechkin, captain of National Hockey League’s (NHL) Washington Capitals and Russian star ice hockey player, had a great time at Summer Olympics London 2012 with his girlfriend, Russian Tennis star Maria Kirilenko.
Ice-Hockey is not a part of Summer Olympics as it is included in Winter Olympics but summer’s games are rated way above winter’s one as they have 26 sports and winter’s ones have just 15.
26-year-old, Ovechkin was a part of 2010 Winter Olympics Russian team but team lost to Team Canada in the Quarter-finals and he could not win a medal. With three years left in next games which would be held in his home country Sochi, Russia, he experienced
some amazing fun supporting his girlfriend at Summer Olympics which are being held in London.
Ovechkin’s girlfriend is Maria Kirilenko, the Russian star Tennis player who is ranked world no. 14 in singles and world no. 7 in doubles. She was representing Russia in both events at the games and due to Alex’s support, she showed some excellent performance
to reach the semifinals of singles event and doubles event, partnering Nadia Petrova.
25-year-old Kirilenko lost in the semifinals to world no. 2 and eventual silver-medallist, compatriot Maria Sharapova and then lost bronze medal match to world no. 1 Victoria Azarenka but she managed to win Bronze medal in doubles event, an achievement that
her star boyfriend could not do.
Continuously talking about his great experience of meeting some superstars and watching the games, Moscow, Russia born star posted his pictures on his official twitter account regularly.
Starting from pictures of him playing Tennis at the most prestigious Tennis club of the world, Wimbledon, Russian ice-hockey star posted pictures of him with his girlfriend in different parts of Olympics village, with Tennis superstars former world no.1
players Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams, watching Roger Federer warming-up in front of him.
Ovechkin also posted his picture with U.S.A and NBA’s star Basketball player Kobe Bryant, who also watched Kirilenko’s match with him. He was caught by cameras and seen jubilant when Kirilenko won bronze medal and posted pictures of him and Kirilenko with
bronze medal.
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