despite finishing in a commendable second place in london behind the english champion alistair brownlee and in front of his brother jonathan brownlee alexander and the rest of the russian team know that it's the olympic performance which will matter most at the end of the day as they continue helping each other to become stronger athlete but with the sound of my teammate to meet three pulley and ski who is also in the world's top ten constantly pushes me to train harder and i'm sure it's reciprocal on his side plus we both feel pressure from foreign athletes who are surely not on to why we're training. at the moment of there are eight russian triathletes among the world's top fifty which is a far cry from only one person in that ranking just five years ago three is the maximum number of olympic licenses that immense team can get with britain call and polanski the obvious takers of the first two tickets however there are at least six more quite capable athletes competing for the remaining tickets to the games where the russians hope for at least one piece of silverware but he's just a li