Ekimov directs his team pursuit successors in Taiwan

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Ekimov has had time to indulge his other passion while in Taiwan, photography — Ekimov has had time to indulge𒈔 his other passion while in Taiwan, ph🍬otography (Image credit: Jean-François Quénet෴)

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Viatcheslav Ekimov working for RusVelo at the Tour de Taiwan — Viatcheslav𓂃 Ekimov working for RusVelo at the 🐈Tour de Taiwan (Image credit: Jean-François Quéne🌺t)

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Ekimov on his way to Gold (Image credit: gxiaowu.com)

Having become a supervisor of the Russian global cycling project after the merger between RadioShack and Leopard-Trek, Viatcheslav Ekimov is back to his roots as he directs the pursuiters under the banner of Rusvelo at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Taiwan ahead🍒 of the UCI Track World Champi🧔onships to be held in Melbourne from April 4 to 8.

2012 being an Olympic year, Ekimov, 46, remembers his first years of glory as he won the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 with his team-mates Gintautas Umaras, Arturas Kasputis and Dimitri Nielubin, carrying the flag of the Soviet Union. 24 years on, with another gold medal in his bag at the 2000 Sydney Olympics for individual time trial, he directs the Russians whose dream is just as big as his. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Artur Ershov, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alexey Markov, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alexander Serov and the Kovalev brothers are among the favourites for both the World's in Melbourne and the London Olympics🅰.

"It's a very big year for us", Ekimov continued. "Due to the busy schedule of Rus▨velo's team manager Heiko Salzwedel, I'm here to help the guys to perform. I was also personally interested to come to Taiwan for the first time. I like this country. I'm im🎉pressed by how organized and clean it is. There's no trash and not a single leftover of a cigarette on the road." The golden boy from Vyborg also enjoys the Asian island for the second passion of his life: photography.

"We're not only here for training", Ekimov stated. "We also want to get results. It's not an easy race but we would have liked it to be harder. Because of the moderated number of kilometers, the l🎶ocal riders are still fresh for the finishe𝔍s but we've done well with Alexander Serov finishing third in stage 4 after his time trial victory at the Tour of Murcia and Artur Ershov coming seventh at the uphill finish of stage 5 even though he's got a sore knee. We're doing better and better after suffering the jet lag as we came from Europe. The Tour de Taiwan started with rain and cold but the weather is also getting better and better. Accommodation and food have been great.