Ivan Makarov Blog

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Category: Sports

San Jose Sharks’ Dan Boyle Uses My Photo On His Web-Site

How about that as a way to start your Saturday? If you know me a little bit, you’ll know that I am a huge hockey fan. I grew up in Russia and this is a sport I played on my high school team. I’m also a big soccer fan, but since moving to US, my [...]

Ryan Lochte

I’ll wrap up the weekend of shooting swimming with a picture of 2nd best all-around swimmer in the world, Ryan Lochte. I’m a big fan of Lochte and I probably like him even more than Michael Phelps. Lochte is always in the shadow of Phelps because they swim the same events and are about the [...]

Michael Phelps

SANTA CLARA, CA – Michael Phelps, the greatest Olympian of all time, is finishing 200m butterfly race at the Santa Clara Invitational. Phelps won the event with the time of 1:54.31, breaking the previous meet record, belonging to himself. I’m spending this weekend attending this big meet held in Santa Clara (next door to San [...]