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Banned Jan Ullrich comes clean

Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich admits he had "contact" with Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport suspended the 1997 Tour champion for two years yesterday after ruling he was "fully engaged" in Fuentes's blood doping program, exposed in a probe.

The German, who retired in 2007, said on his website he accepted the ban "not because I agree with every point in the reasoning for the ruling but because I finally want to put an end to the issue."

And today, he added: "I confirm that I had contact with Fuentes. I know that this was a big mistake, which I regret very much.

"In retrospect I would act differently in some situations during my career."

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