The arrest in the United States of ice hockey star Semyon Varlamov on assault charges prompted shock and disbelief on Friday in Russia, where he is seen as key to the national team's performance at the February Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The 25-year-old Russian was arrested in Denver and freed on bail on Thursday on charges of assaulting and kidnapping a woman named in media reports as his model girlfriend Yevgenia Vavrinyuk.
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