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January 18, 2006
Discovery in training camp; Ekimov healthy and strong
ThePaceLine.com | Solvang Camp: Day 1 (free reg. req.)
Discovery Channel's team leaders are already in camp in Solvang, with the balance expected tonight.
Hincapie, Danielson, Savoldelli, Ekimov, Popovych and others did some velodrome laps to improve their TT form.
Bruyneel says Ekimov has no residual problems from the bad back injury that kept him out of last year's Tour, and didn't really need the time on the velodrome:
Bruyneel also noted that even though last year was Eki’s first time in the wind tunnel ever, the Olympic TT champion was close to dead-on just through his own personal set up. And today bore that out once again; Eki did his first test with his old set up, then after trying a couple of tweaks here and there the numbers said it all – his best run was with his original set up and leave it alone.
Sammarye "Velogal" Lewis is on the scene, and trying an interesting experiment: She's audioblogging from Solvang. As usual, she's also got a training camp photo gallery up at SmugMug, including some shots of Michael and Dede Demet Barry's son, Liam.
Posted by Frank Steele on January 18, 2006 in George Hincapie, Paolo Savoldelli, Tom Danielson, Viatcheslav Ekimov | Permalink