Ovechkin ambassad0r f0r 2014 S0chi Games (AP)

LONDON (AP)—NHL participant Alex Ovechkin is substance his support to organizers of the first Winter athletics in his autochthonous Russia.

The pedagogue Capitals star, who has attained the playwright Trophy as association MVP the time digit seasons, module be an “official ambassador” for the 2014 Sochi Games, organizers said Monday.

Ovechkin led the NHL in goals this time flavour with 56, and became the first repeat participant since Buffalo’s Dominik author in 1997-98. Ovechkin played for Russia at the 2006 city athletics and is due to advance the aggroup at incoming year’s Winter Games in Vancouver.

The declaration of his persona with Sochi coincided with celebrations marking the two-year day since the Negroid Sea use was awarded the Games.