Ovechkin Hangs With a BeeGee
Yeah, that's Robin Gibb and Alex Ovechkin, sharing a stage.
Sadly, four semesters of collegiate Russian leave me unable to decipher this clip from a Russian music awards show, featuring Alex Ovechkin, Ilya Kovalchuk and some other Russian dude presenting some sort of award to the Robin Gibb, which I can only assume had something to do with his re-recording "Staying Alive" with Russian pop starlet Valerieya, sometimes known as the Russian Madonna.
So yeah, that's a lot of equivocation, but you don't need any language skills to say that when Ovechkin emerged out of some flashing gold shoot wearing jeans and a tight v-neck t-shirt plunging to around his midriff, while literally every other male human being in sight chose to instead wear a suit, only for him to joke on stage while waiting to clasp hands with a disco legend, it was pure awesome. Anyhow, someone translate Ovechkin's remarks, please.
(For more offseason Ovechkin, read yesterday's excellent if depressing Washington Times profile of older brother Mikhail, who works, of all things, as a video editor for the Mystics.)
By Dan Steinberg |
June 25, 2008; 1:27 PM ET
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Posted by: CapsChick | June 25, 2008 2:12 PM
Talkin' 'bout chest hair
Talkin' 'bout crazy gold medallions
So when is Ovie going on the Barry Gibb Show?
Posted by: TruthAboutIt.net | June 25, 2008 2:35 PM
I'll even watch the ESPYs if they can get Ovy to come out in a v-neck t-shirt and give shoutouts to legendary Russian goalies.
Posted by: Fingerman | June 25, 2008 3:16 PM
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I had a friend show me this clip last week and she offered me a rough translation of it:
[Ovechkin is joined by Ilya Kovalchuk of the Thrashers and Alexei Morozov, formerly a Penguin, now playing in Russia]
Ovechkin: Hi! Thanks to my fan group. I don't know what to say, actually, but I liked Zhanna's haircut. Thanks!
[Kovalchuk makes people shout "We're the champions"]
Kovalchuk: I wanna say a couple of words, you know, May turned out to be great for Russia. Russia is a great country, in which we, the sportsmen, come from schools. I wanna congratulate Dima Bilan, the hockey team and everybody else who has won so far.
Ovechkin: Look! There's Vladislav Alexandrovich (Tretyak).
Kovalchuk: Vladislav Alexandrovich, we love you. It's great when to FHR the right man came. We feel the big hope.
Ovechkin: Big thanks.
Kovalchuk: When people believe in us, we want to play for those who believe in us. So, Russia -- HUGE THANKS!
Morozov: Hello to all, we won't take your time any more. We made you wait for 15 years for our victories. Thanks for your love!