Fabled Russian road cyclist
Vyacheslav Ekimov has received his third Olympic gold medal, the one originally presented to US rider Tyler Hamilton for his time trial victory in 2004 that was later annulled by the IOC because of Hamilton's illegal drug use. Additionally, Ekimov, general manager of the European professional Katusha racing team, announced that the team's failure to receive a UCI pro tour license this year was because of doping issues.
Ekimov was a Tour de France finisher 15 different times and a member of the US Postal Service team and the Discovery Channel team that also featured American Lance Armstrong and. He joined the Radio Shack team in a managerial capacity after his retirement from racing. Newly named as the boss at Katusha, Ekimov
has inherited a problem not entirely of his own making but endemic to the sport.
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