Jan Ullrich
[5] The following year, he finished third behind Chris Boardman and Andrea Chiurato in the world time trial championship in Sicily.He finished a minute ahead[11] which earned his first yellow jersey as leader of the general classification.In the final time trial, won by Abraham Olano, Ullrich extended his lead over Virenque and the following day became the first German to win the Tour de France.In the following year during the inaugural Deutschland Tour, Ullrich fell after getting entangled with Udo Bölts during stage 3.Ullrich set his targets on the world time trial championship in October by riding the Vuelta.On the first mountain stage, Ullrich narrowly won against the defending Vuelta a España champion Abraham Olano of Team ONCE in a group sprint that included Frank Vandenbroucke, Roberto Heras and Davide Rebellin.On stage 18 Banesto and other Spanish teams tried to crack Ullrich, who struggled on the final climb but recovered to limit his losses to González.Several weeks later he became world time trial champion over Sweden's Michael Andersson and Briton Chris Boardman.He won the silver in the time-trial, losing by only seven seconds to Viatcheslav Ekimov but beating Armstrong soundly into third.[15] After a positive blood sample for amphetamine in June 2002,[16] Ullrich's contract with Team Telekom was ended, and he was banned for six months.[17] He had not been racing since January due to a knee injury,[18] and the German Cycling Federation's disciplinary committee agreed that he was not attempting to use the drug for performance enhancement, so he was given a minimum suspension.[22] On 13 January 2003, Ullrich, along with his advisor Rudy Pevenage, joined Team Coast on a multi-million Euro deal.Halfway into the next climb, Luz Ardiden, Armstrong's handlebar got caught in a spectator's yellow musette waving in the air and he fell.For waiting on Armstrong after his fall during the stage to Luz Ardiden, the German Olympic Association (Deutsche Olympische Gesellschaft) gave Ullrich their fair-play medal.[29] Commenting on Ullrich's wait for Armstrong to recover, Dan Boyle, of the Institute for International Sport said "It was an act that will live with him forever, cynics will say he lost money, but it was a highly commendable thing that he did.He maintained a low profile for the early season, surfacing in the 2005 Tour de Suisse, which he finished third behind Aitor González and Michael Rogers.The day before the 2005 Tour de France, Ullrich was training when his team car stopped unexpectedly.Ullrich began focusing on finishing ahead of Michael Rasmussen for a podium position.[31] Early reports said Ullrich was in better shape than previous years and could be ready for his second victory in the Tour.General manager Olaf Ludwig announced the news during the 18th stage of the Tour between Morzine and Macon.[35] A German court imposed a gag order on Franke after it found there was not enough evidence to link Ullrich to doping.On 4 April 2007, Ullrich's DNA sample, had "without a doubt" matched nine bags of blood taken from Eufemiano Fuentes' office.[39] On 25 October 2006, a document from the Spanish court on Ullrich's website stated that no charges would be filed.[45] In 2010, with the doping allegations still ongoing, Ullrich was diagnosed with burn-out, and avoided public appearances for a few months.[49] His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004.[50] In 2023, Ullrich admitted to using performance enhancing substances throughout his career, starting from when he turned professional in 1995 with the Telekom team.In 2017, Ullrich was convicted of drunk driving in Switzerland after a 2014 car crash in which two people were injured.Personal issues with alcohol and drugs led to his separation from his wife, Sara, at the end of 2017.In August 2018, Ullrich faced charges in Spain after he broke in to the Mallorca home of his neighbour, the German actor and filmmaker Til Schweiger, and threatened him.[55][56] Ullrich featured on a podcast with Lance Armstrong covering the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, in which Ullrich said that he was fully recovered from his personal difficulties but that he had almost suffered the same fate as Marco Pantani, who died following acute cocaine poisoning in 2004.
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