Cycling: 2006 World Championship runner-up Eric Zabel has admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs in the mid-1990s.
German Zabel confessed to taking EPO when riding for the Telekom team in 1996, as did Rolf Aldag, who is now sporting director of the T-Mobile team, the successor to Telekom.
"I took EPO in 1996 but I stopped taking it after a week because of secondary effects," said Zabel, who now wides for the Milram team.
Both Zabel and Aldag rode for Telekom when its team leaders, Bjarne Riis in 1996 and Jan Ullrich in 1997, claimed successive victories in the Tour de France.
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Zabel, 36, has finished top of the points classification in the Tour de France six times.