Cyclist Ullrich to be disciplined for doping
AFP - [email protected] •
7 Jul, 2009
Updated Tue 7 Jul 2009 08:45 CEST
Germany's retired former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich is to be the subject of a disciplinary procedure by the Swiss anti-doping commission, daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday.
Gerhard Walter, president of the Swiss Olympic Committee's disciplinary anti-doping commission, told the paper that they had been asked to open an enquiry into the 35-year-old.
"I can confirm that we have received a request from the Swiss Antidoping Foundation (ADS) and for that reason we have launched a disciplinary procedure," said Walter.
Ullrich won the 1997 Tour de France and was a multiple runner-up behind American seven-time winner Lance Armstrong before retiring from cycling after being sacked by his T-Mobile team in 2006.
His dismissal was due to his alleged links with Eufemiano Fuentes, the Spanish doctor at the centre of the Puerto drugs affair.
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