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It will be the two-time Olympic medalist Alexander Zubkov'' to have the honor of carrying the coveted'' Russian flag during the opening ceremony of'' Olympic Games in Sochi, scheduled in two days.
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Zubkov,'' forty years on August 10th, will take part in his fifth Olympics and will hunt the first gold medal'' the story of the Russian Federation in 1988 as the'' gold in the men's two-man bobsleigh went a crew'' s former Soviet Union.
"I am very pleased and honored above all of this great recognition - said the bobbista-R sports on television - it's nice to know you have in your hands the responsibility of an entire country.'ll Try to do everything possible to help my team to give the maximum in this edition of the Olympic Games. "
Zubkov won the bronze medal in the four-man bob at the last Olympics in Turin in 2006 and Vancouver took the third step of the podium in the two-man bobsleigh.
The Russian bobsledder in this "race" to the Olympic flag-bearer won the competition three other stars from the world of ice as the star of'' NHL Ilya Kovalchuk, the champion of figure skating Evgeni Pluschenko and veteran of the sled Albert Demtschenko.
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