Pulled out of a race on the eve of the start in 2006, this German Grand Tour winner spent six years denying everything — until sport's highest court matched his DNA to blood bags held by a doctor in Madrid.
The full story
The Court of Arbitration for Sport found on 9 February 2012 that Jan Ullrich had committed a blood-doping violation, imposing a two-year ban backdated to 22 August 2011 and annulling all his results from 1 May 2005 onward, including third place at the 2005 Tour de France. CAS held that DNA testing matched his profile to blood bags held by Dr Eufemiano Fuentes and that he had paid Fuentes more than €80,000. It declined the UCI's request for a lifetime ban. Ullrich publicly acknowledged the treatment in 2013.
The clues we handed out
— The ban was two years, and every result he had recorded from May 2005 onward was wiped from the record.
— The court found he had paid the doctor more than €80,000.
— The governing body had asked for a lifetime ban. It did not get one.
— He admitted publicly in 2013 that he had been treated by the doctor. The sport is road cycling.
— Initials: J.U.
How this case played
ALLEGEDLY* edition No. 61. Three strikes to name Jan Ullrich, with a free clue
unlocked after every miss.
*A blind item you can check. Every puzzle is drawn from the public record —
court records, official rulings, and moments that unfolded on live television — and the
records are linked above. Allegedly.
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