NEWSFLASH: Jan Ullrich has been fired by his team T-Mobile following his recent implication in the Operacion Puerto blood doping scandal, according to german news agency SID. The German 1997 Tour winner is said to be in denial, but directeur sportif Olaf Ludwig has confirmed the news.
The Jan is axed!
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Scooped by a minute.
T-Mobile sacked Jan Ullrich, their star rider of ten years, by fax for his involvement in Spain's doping probe, the rider said on his website on Friday. Ullrich, who was suspended from riding in the Tour de France, said that he was "disappointed" and that his lawyers would contest the decision.
What a massive meatslap right across The Jan's mug!
What a massive meatslap right across The Jan's mug!
While it DOES suck that he was fired by fax, why doesn't he just man up and take a dna test if he is so adamant about being innocent? Just get it over with instead of bickering about who should be proving it.
Oh, I agree, that's what I'm saying. It's so silly..does he really expect people to believe he is innocent and just a victim here?sanjuro said:
My favorite quote from eurosport's coverage of today's stage?
"25 km The leaders whizz past some Mâcon vinyards, and a huge water tower. That water tower is truly the Jan-Ullrich-Off-Season of all water towers... a monumental girth."
"25 km The leaders whizz past some Mâcon vinyards, and a huge water tower. That water tower is truly the Jan-Ullrich-Off-Season of all water towers... a monumental girth."
the Jan is being having a big schnitzel.
His career was almost over anyway, what did he have to loose? This way he'll sue the team and maybe win a few bucks.
I'm sure that somewhere in his contract it says that lying to the team is grounds for termination.
But I am also pretty sure they took a "don't ask, don't tell" approach and are sacrificing Der Kaiser in order to (hopefully) keep their sponsor.
But I am also pretty sure they took a "don't ask, don't tell" approach and are sacrificing Der Kaiser in order to (hopefully) keep their sponsor.
"A DNA test is traumatic, and not 100% reliable,..."-Ivan Basso's Lawyer.
Under a different team (read: not disfunctional like T-Mobile), I'd say that the Jan has another year or two of GC placement. Just look at what a year on the Bianchi team did for him.Reactor said:
Correct, and if you have a cotton swab phobia it can be very traumautic.sanjuro said:
Yes, he supposedly signed a statement at the beginning of this entire scandal stating that he had no affiliation with Dr. Fuentes or the lab.OGRipper said:
Do you think they will ever come up with something less invasive?Westy said:
reflux said:
They can take a hair sample but you dare not touch someones 'do.
Perhaps the day will soon come where we can gather DNA evidence by simply breathing in one's general direction. We can only hope.Westy said:
It's very traumatic if it happens to implicate you...Westy said:
Certainly not the Jan's.Westy said:
He may well be guilty but there is only circumstantial evidence until he submits to a DNA test. And I'm no scientist, but I've read that it's hard and expensive to make DNA testing more than 99% reliable. That sounds impressive, but it means that 1 out of every hundred tests is (or could be) wrong. I'd be uncomfortable with those odds even if I knew I was innocent.
would they have to resort to pubes if they tested pantani?Westy said: