Ullrich: More confusion from Swiss Cycling

According to German-based website "Radsport-Aktiv.de" Bernhard Welten, who is the prosecuter handling the Ullrich case for the Swiss Olympic anti-doping authorities, claimed that the rule of the Madrid court saying that the Puerto documents cannot be used for disciplinary action against riders who are allegedly linked to the Puerto scandal does not apply to Swiss Olympic's case against Jan Ullrich. Welten told Radsport-Aktiv that the court order was valid for goverment bodies but not for sports bodies. The statement is again confusing since the court order from Madrid does in fact state that sport bodies are not allowed to use the documents in order to take disciplinary action against riders. The court order also states that the UCI and their federations will not recieve additional documents since the Madrid court does not consider the UCI a party in the case against Fuentes. Welten however told "Radsport-Aktiv.de" that he is waiting for additional documents concerning the case while Swiss Cycling confirmed that the Swiss federation intends to continue their case against Ullrich.

A spokesman of the German cycling federation considered it impossible for Ullrich to be licensed by the German federation.

Honour for Erik Zabel

Today Erik Zabel was granted a very special honour. In his adopted home Unna, the 36 year-old was awarded the „Eisener Reinoldus 2006“ by the press association Ruhr Dortmund/Kreis Unna (Germany).

The German Milram rider was elected due to his competent and ready witted treatment of journalists. The laudation in the town hall in Unna was held by Zabel’s longtime team- and room-mate and new T-Mobile sports director Rolf Aldag.