MONTARGIS, France (AP) — The former sports director of T-Mobile’s cycling team says he arranged for Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich to visit a Madrid-based doctor allegedly involved in doping.
Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes was accused of running a laboratory that stored and enhanced the blood of over 50 cyclists with the banned performance-enhancer Erythropoietin, known as EPO.
Rudy Pevenage told sports daily L’Equipe on Thursday that he “organized Jan Ullrich’s trips to Madrid to see Dr. Fuentes,” adding “What’s the point in continuing to lie?”
Ullrich won the 1997 Tour but was kicked out on the eve of the 2006 Tour, along with Italian rider Ivan Basso because of their suspected implication in the Operation Puerto affair that Fuentes was linked to.
Ullrich was fired by T-Mobile.
