Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei wāhanga - I tohu a Petrovskiy mō te kapa o Rūhia i te whai a te kapa tāne
i te 2008 Summer Olympics i Beijing i runga i te tukanga whiriwhiri o te motu mai i te UCI Track World Rankings. I whakawhiwhia e ia ki te roopu Russian o Alexei Markov, Alexander Serov, me Nikolay Trusov te wa tuawaru o te 4:06.518 i roto i nga waahanga o mua i mua i te heke o tana kapa ka uru ki nga Pakeha (i arahina e te toa o te wa o te wa o te Olympics a Bradley Wiggins) i te rauna tuatoru o te whakataetae.