Thanks to Sovetsky Sports' Pavel Lysenkov and Dmitry Chesnokov for passing along the following pictures of Alexander Ovechkin at the Olympics in Beijing. SovSport's article that accompanies the photographs will be forthcoming later. And no, the woman with Ovechkin in the last picture is not his girlfriend. She's a well known Russian actress. No surprise that the 2014 Olympic hosts would select two of Russia's most recognizable faces to promote the Games.

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