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WASHINGTON -- The 2014 Winter Olympics are Alex Ovechkins showcase, and hell be the first Russian to carry the torch toward Sochi. Vapormax Laceless Pas Cher . Ovechkin will travel to Greece this weekend and take the torch after its ignited in Olympia. Hes set to return to Washington on Sunday and then practise with the Capitals on Monday. They travel to Chicago later Monday and open the season Tuesday against the Blackhawks. "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and something I will never forget," Ovechkin said in a statement released by the team. "I would like to thank the Washington Capitals organization and all of my teammates for their support in enabling me to travel to Greece prior to the regular season." There was concern about timing, given that the Capitals start the regular season on the road. Ovechkin will miss their final pre-season game Saturday, but his schedule does not have him in danger of being out for the opener. "This is a huge honour and we are so proud, and excited for Alex and his family," Capitals owner Ted Leonsis said in the statement. "This is a very special event and we are thrilled that he was recognized for his past achievements and his dedication to his craft and his country." Ovechkin and other Russian stars said numerous times before the NHL agreed to send players to Sochi that they would go anyway. Leonsis even went so far as to declare he would let his captain go. Thats a moot point after an agreement was reached. "Im very excited," Ovechkin said earlier this month at the leagues player media tour in Newark, N.J. "Im going to play at home in front of Russian fans, family. Its going to be fun, its going to be cool." Vapormax Plus Noir Pas Cher . JOHNS, N. Nike Air Vapormax Soldes . The Tiger-Cats announced on Friday the linebacker has signed a new contract with the team through the 2016 season. http://www.vapormaxpaschersoldes.fr/ . Canada wasnt in the game from the outset. Head coach Dan Church left Calgary in the morning without addressing the players. He told The Canadian Press he felt the organization lacked confidence in his ability to defend the Olympic gold medal in February.Weightlifting great Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan is among 10 competitors to have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at London 2012. Four Olympic champions from Kazakhstan were caught after their samples from four summers ago were retested by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Ilyin, the mens 94kg gold medallist, and three women champions - Zulfiya Chinshanlo (53kg), Maiya Maneza (63kg) and Svetlana Podobedova (75kg) - failed tests according to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The 10 lifters, including seven London medallists in total and a current world champion, most of whom were expected to be medal contenders in Rio this summer, have all been provisionally suspended, the IWF said.Double Olympic champion Ilyin, 28, is to weightlifting what Usain Bolt is to athletics - he has nearly 400,000 followers on social media and has been named male weightlifter of the year four times.A winner of the sports leading accolade in 2005, 2006, 2014 and 2015, four-time world champion Ilyin is a national hero and also a personal friend of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev.His victory in London followed his triumph in Beijing in 2008. A multiple world record holder, he was confident of winning a third gold, at 105kg, in Rio.Ilyin, who turned vegetarian and took a break fromm competition after London, set his latest world records at the Presidents Cup in Moscow in December. Vapormax Flyknit 3 Pas Cher. He had never failed a test before. Kazakhstans Zulfiya Chinshanlo has also tested positive Of the Kazakh women gold medallists, Chinshanlo, in 2012, and Podobedova, 2010, are both former IWF female weightlifters of the year.The other 2012 medallists who tested positive were Russian mens 85kg silver medallist Apti Aukhadov and two womens bronze medallists, Ukrainian Yuliya Kalina (58kg) and Belaruss Maryna Shkermankova (69kg).The reigning womens 58kg world champion Boyanka Kostova, a Bulgarian who now competes for Azerbaijan and finished fifth in London, was also among the positive tests.Two other athletes from Belarus failed tests - Yauheni Zharnasek (ninth in the mens +105kg) and Dzina Sazanavets (fourth in the womens 69kg).All four of Kazakhstans gold medallists in London are now set to be stripped of their titles. Also See: New doping claims hit Russia Puerto blood bags to be released ' ' '