At the Olympic sprint event, Tikhonov showed no signs that he was retreating.
In an interview at the men's sprint event Feb. 14, Tikhonov said he was innocent.
Denis Dmitriev, 30, has won the sprint event at the European track cycling championships three times.
In the men's sprint event, the fastest Russian skier finished 10th, and the team's captain, Maxim Chudov, came in 63rd.
Jackson, who produced a stunning silver medal in Saturday's individual sprint event, hung in to produce another outstanding run leg before tagging anchorman Dan Wilson in first place.
GERMAN TAKES BIATHON Arnd Peiffer of Germany claimed his first major individual biathlon gold medal, winning the men's sprint event at the world championships in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, he won gold in a sprint event (500 metre) and two distance events (5,000 and 10,000 metre).
Hettich finished a tenth of a second behind Kircheisen, who earned his first World Cup victory in the sprint event on Friday.
That is something she is working on, because the sprint event will be in the classical discipline at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Verdenius's overall victory came after he placed 10th in the sprint event at this month's Nordic world championships at Lahti, Finland.
The team pursuit is less than four minutes so that's a sprint event and three of the omnium disciplines are sprint events.
