Beijing, February 3 Dynamo Moscow Hockey Club striker Vadim Shipachev said , which was very happy when he learned that he was chosen as the standard bearer of the Russian team at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. The opening of the Games will take place on Friday in Beijing. The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) chose Shipacheva and skater Olga Fatkulina as the flag bearers of the Russian delegation. «Today the team management announced that I was chosen as the flag bearer. I was very happy, this is a great responsibility. Such an event can be once in a lifetime. I am very pleased,» — Shipachev is quoted by the ROC Telegram channel. Shipachev is the Olympic champion of the Games in Pyeongchang, the 2014 world champion and a two-time winner of the Gagarin Cup. He also has a silver medal and two bronze medals at world championships.
