Double Olympic champion Yevgeny Plushenko told that the striker and captain “Washington Capitals » Alexander Ovechkin understands figure skating and knows many athletes.
Plushenko posted a photo with Ovechkin on social networks and said that the hockey player became a guest of Plushenko Angels Academy.
– Sasha was visiting me, we have been friends for a long time. We had dinner as a family. Sasha looked at our academy that we built. I told him that we were planning to build two ice rinks, a professional soccer field, an athletics arena, hotels and a tennis club. We will have a direct Olympic sports village. He liked everything very much.
Yesterday it coincided so much that my show “Union of Champions” took place. We watched it for a bit, and Sasha asked about my athletes, since most of the skaters were from my academy. He is on the subject, knows all the sportsmen. Sasha and I have participated in more than one Olympics, so we have been friends for a long time,” Plushenko told .
Ovechkin, with 780 goals, is one of the top three scorers in National Hockey League (NHL) history. The 36-year-old Russian has three world championship victories, he won the Stanley Cup with the Capitals.
Source : MatchTV
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