Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung charged Friday that Jan Ullrich had been working with the Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes for much longer than was originally revealed in the recent Operación Puerto investigation in Spain.
In it’s Friday edition the German newspaper published additional documents from the investigation of the Spanish authorities, suggesting that Ullrich used an assortment of doping products leading up to and during the 2005 Tour de France.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung claims to have secured a so-called “road book” from the office of Fuentes in which the dosage and duration of medication for Ullrich is documented in detail. The road book suggests that Ullrich took a mix of hormones, insulin, cortisone, testosterone, as well as a unit of his own prepared blood during the first week of the 2005 Tour.
If confirmed, the new evidence of course raises serious questions about the effectiveness of doping tests at the Tour de France.
For team T-Mobile the new information changes nothing in the process of sorting out their contractual obligations toward Ullrich.
“We are not surprised”, says team spokesman Christian Frommert. “We expected more evidence about Ullrich to come out.”
The corporation’s attorneys will take the information into consideration while constructing a case, that will allow them to fire Ullrich. Ullrich has hired the German attorney Matthias Prinz.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung, meanwhile, seems to have acquired documents from the Spanish investigation, that are accessible to no one else. The new information, according to Frommert, was not contained in the documentation that T-Mobile had initially received from the Tour-organization on which the team based its suspension.