He will become an Honorary Freeman of the Borough in Pendle after winning gold in the team pursuit track cycling.
Ekimov, from St Petersburg, first won Olympic gold in the team pursuit for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Games.
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Three-time Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins will race in the team pursuit.
Beijing Olympics individual pursuit bronze medallist Steven Burke, 23, and Rob Hayles, 38, who won silver in the team pursuit at the Athens Olympics and a bronze at the Sydney Olympics, are also taking part.
The "Colne Cyclone" has twice been part of a world-record breaking team this year - in the team pursuit final at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne and on Thursday, as part of the Great Britain Olympic team, setting a new world-record time during the men's team pursuit track cycling qualifier.
Kramer is targeting a hat-trick of golds at the Canada Games as he goes in the 10, 000m and the team pursuit.
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The absence of Romero will be frustrating for the 31-year-old after being lined up to make the women's team pursuit in Manchester - the only track event now suited to her in the Olympic programme.
He's plowed almost all those gains back into the team in pursuit of winning a championship.
The 24-year-old, nicknamed The Colne Cyclone, won gold in the men's team pursuit track cycling at London 2012.
Along with 26-year-old Ennis's victory, cyclist Ed Clancy, 27, from Huddersfield, won gold in the men's team pursuit.
Meyer, who had already won gold medals in the points race and team pursuit, admitted the Games were missing some of cycling's biggest stars.
With the exception of a team working at Pennsylvania State University, he stands alone in the pursuit of what may be the ultimate feat of bioengineering, (see table).
He was also one of the winning team pursuit cyclists at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne and has been given his honour for services to cycling.
Trott won the women's team pursuit and the omnium at this year's Olympic Games in London.
Houvenaghel, who took silver in the individual pursuit on Wednesday night, and her British team-mates were fastest in Thursday's qualifying round.
It is a popular victory because it breaks up the mini-cartel at the top of Premier League and was achieved by a team and a manager that refused to put on the handbrake in pursuit of victory.
Wiggins, who won individual pursuit gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics then added gold in individual and team pursuits in Beijing four years later, joins Geraint Thomas, Ed Clancy, Steven Burke and Andy Tennant for the five-man, four kilometre team pursuit.
As well as being Olympic team pursuit champion, Clancy won gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in Denmark last year, and he also picked up the men's omnium - the "pentathlon" of cycling - in the second round of the World Cup in Cali, Colombia.
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