Breaking News: Zabel and Aldag Confess EPO Use

By Jessica | Permalink | No Comments | May 24th, 2007 | Trackback

The heartbreaks just keep coming, folks. This is really no time to be a cycling fan.

A tearful Erik Zabel appeared at the T-Mobile press conference Thursday along with former teammate Rolf Aldag to confess to using the banned blood booster EPO while riding for the Team Telekom in the 1990s.

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Zabel was a surprise guest at the press conference in Bonn, Germany. Visibly moved and fighting back tears — sometimes unsuccessfully — he admitted to having used EPO during the first week of the Tour de France 1996. The side-effects were so great, however, that he stopped with it. He admitted that he did not know how his current team Milram would accept his confession, and it not clear what is his present status with the team.

He was unable to control his voice or hold back his tears when he spoke of his son Rick. “My son rides, too, and I don’t want him to go through what I went through,” said the four-time winner of Milano-Sanremo.

“It doesn’t make any difference whether it happened one time or over two years, the point is that it was forbidden to dope, and I doped. I doped, I lied and I apologize for that.”

You can read the full report here.

photo: Afp

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