Zakarin heads up Russian road team for Olympic Games in Rio
The Russian Cycling Federation announced today that the three riders who will represent the country in the road race at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero are Ilnur Zakarin, Sergei Chernetskiy and Pavel Kochetkov, all of Katusha.
The hilly road race circuit in Rio favours climbers, and Zakarin is one of the best in his country when the road tilts uphill. He won the La Madone d'Utelle stage in Paris-Nice this season, and finished first on the stage to Morgis in the Tour de Romandie but was relegated to second behind Nairo Quintana for irregular sprinting. In 2015, Zakarin won a stage in the Giro d'Italia, but this year he was chasing the overall classification when he crashed on a descent and fractured his collarbone.
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Kochetkov is the new Russian road race champion, while Chernetskiy won the time trial championship.
The women will be represented only by London double bronze medalist Olga Zabelinskaya, who returned to the sport after a ban for doping. Zabelinskaya tested positive for octopamine in 2014, but denied any wrongdoing. The Russian Federation cleared her of the case in 2015, then was forced to settle with the UCI when it took the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to push a two-year ban forward. She accepted an 18-month suspension that ended in September, 2015, opening the door for her to compete in Rio.
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