Vyacheslav
Yekimov
58Y 8M 29D
04.02.1966
Olympic medals from Vyacheslav Yekimov
3 Medals in 3 Games
1988 - 2004
Medals
Cycling
Individual Road Time Trial
on August 18, 2004
in Athens
Result
57:50.58The American Tyler Hamilton was celebrated as the winner in 57: 34.74. The A sample gives blood doping with alien blood. However, since the B-sample was unusable due to a wrong storage, he was able to retain his gold medal for the time being. A lawsuit by second-placed Russian Vyacheslav Yekimov was dismissed, as only the IOC and the World Association UCI are entitled to do so. Several months later, Hamilton was convicted of blood doping again, but he wanted to excuse himself with the excuse that the blood came from a deceased, prenatal twin. He was locked for two years. After the lock he won another leg of the Tour of Qinghai Lake. In 2009 he was convicted for the third time of doping and suspended for 8 years. That ended his career. In 2011, he admitted on American television that he had doped for years and accused Lance Armstrong who was in the same team with him, also of doping. He appeared as a key witness against Lance Armstrong, confessed to doping in court itself. The gold meda
Cycling
Individual Road Time Trial
on September 30, 2000
in Sydney
Result
57:40:0046.8km The American Lance Armstrong finished third in the individual time trial in 58:14. He also won the Tour de France seven times in a row from 1999 to 2005. An incredible series. Therefore, his cycling career was always accompanied by rumors of doping. Armstrong denied having doped. Armstrong's fate was that his teammates Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton confessed to doping with Lance Armstrong. Nevertheless, he continued to argue that he did not use doping agents. In October 2012, the UCI, the world cycling association, recognized the seven victories in the Tour de France. On January 17, 2013, Lance Armstrong admitted that she had doped in the American show Ophra's Next Chapter by star host Ophra Winfrey for years. The IOC immediately deprived him of the bronze medal. This was no longer awarded.