Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich has pulled out of Sunday's world road race championship in Italy with the same stomach sickness which caused him to pull out of Wednesday's time-trial.

"He can't race, it's impossible," said his business manager Rudy Pevenage.

Ullrich, 30, the 1997 Tour de France winner is a two-time world time-trial champion - in 1999 and 2001 - but has never won the road race, although he won the Olympic road title at Sydney in 2000.

“The season is over for me,” Ullrich said on his on website. “I am so weak that I lose my breath just climbing up stairs.”

“The season did not go the way I had imagined,” said the T-Mobile rider. “I'm certainly not totally satisfied but it was not a catastrophe either. Once I’m healthy again I will take some holidays with my family. I will start preparing for the new season in November.”

Meanwhile, a German court on Wednesday ruled in favor of Ullrich’s lawsuit against his former Coast team.

Ullrich will receive around 1.6 million euros compensation from the owners of the failed team. The award is based on Ullrich’s claim of 1.46 million euros in backdated salary payments and interest.

After leaving his former Telekom team, Ullrich signed a three-year contract with Coast in January 2003 but the relationship lasted only until May of the same year with Coast failing to meet its payment obligations.

Ullrich then joined the upstart Bianchi squad and rode a very competitive Tour de France. He has since returned to Telekom, which now operates under the T-Mobile banner.