| The 1997 Tour winner Jan Ulrich is once again | | | | applied. |
| under doubt due to doping; the German who was | | | | |
| sacked from the T-Mobile team last year after | | | | While Ulrich denies any link with Eufemiano |
| being involved in the Spanish doping | | | | Fuentes, the Spanish doctor responsible of |
| investigation called "Operación Puerto" | | | | providing doping services to the Pro Tour |
| while being accused of using Erythropoietin | | | | cyclist as well as for possession of frozen |
| (blood buster) and Grow Hormone. Apparently, | | | | blood bags and doping equipment in his house |
| the 33-years-old cyclist used the prohibit | | | | and clinic; D'Hont is ready to present his |
| substances to enhance his performance to win | | | | new book, which apparently contains more |
| the Tour ten year ago too. | | | | material to blame the German of using doping |
| | | | during his career as a professional cyclist. |
| The disgrace has come to the German's life | | | | The masseur actually provided the Bonn's |
| who keeps denying the use of any performance | | | | attorney and the Focus Magazine with some |
| enhancing drugs since D' Hont, masseur of | | | | evidence regarding Ulrich and T- Mobile's |
| Telekom during the 90's has declared to the | | | | team guilt. |
| press he had even seen the Tour de France | | | | |
| champion being injected with the banned | | | | German professional cyclist Patrick Sinkewitz |
| substances during the years he worked for the | | | | has also considered withdrawing from the race |
| team. D' Hont actually wrote a book about | | | | due to the strict ban on doping which lies on |
| doping at the Telekom (currently T-Mobile) | | | | the team. He also provided investigators with |
| when Bjarne Riss, also a tour winner, was | | | | information on how Andreas Schmid and Lothar |
| part of the team. Actually, Riss already | | | | Heinrich (T-Mobile doctors) administered |
| confessed to be guilty and was stripped out | | | | performance enhancing drugs to cyclists |
| of his yellow jersey. | | | | through blood replacement treatment, even |
| | | | after the suspension of Jan Ulrich from the |
| The new incriminations of doping come as a | | | | Tour de France in 2006. |
| result of the introduction of the new | | | | |
| anti-doping law last May and regarding the | | | | The evidences are plenty, cyclists are highly |
| implication of the cyclist in the | | | | affected and fans are very disappointed. Jan |
| Operación Puerto. However, a Spanish | | | | Ulrich can not expect more trouble; the |
| court ruled in March that Spain's new anti | | | | German star is falling down from his podium |
| doping laws could not be retroactively | | | | as well as many Tours famous already did. |