Aldag and Zabel are the fourth and fifth former cycling professionals of Team Telekom after Bert Dietz, Christian Henn and Udo Bölts who confessed having used epo in the recent days. Together they had formed the successful Team Telekom which dominated the Tour de France in 1996-1997. Bjarne Riis and Jan Ullrich who won the Tour de France in these years never confessed having used epo or other doping materials. Ulrich is accused of having used blood doping.

In these days more and more information about doped cycling professionals become public. Experts assume exhaustive doping throughout the whole cycling scene. The main problem seems to be that present doping methods can’t be reliably proved. After the big scandal last year, when Floyd Landis won the Tour de France using doping, there is much doubt in the professionals” testimonies pretending to be clean. Let’s hope that the recent confessions help to change something and that the suggestion made by an ARD expert is true:

“This could be a sport-historic moment.”