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    BERLIN, Germany -- Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich, a German national who lives in Switzerland, has said he is quitting the Swiss Cycling Federation. "The mutual trust has been destroyed," Ullrich said in a statement on his website. "The leaders of Swiss Cycling and Swiss Olympic have been whipping up a media campaign against me with press statements and contradictory statements." Ullrich's cycling team T-Mobile suspended him in June, on the eve of the Tour de France, after he was implicated in a Spanish doping investigation. He was sacked three weeks later. The German, who won the Tour in 1997 and had five second-place finishes in cycling's greatest race, has consistently protested his innocence. Ullrich, 32, added in his statement: "This resignation from the federation does not mean that I am ending my career. There are contacts to other cycling federations about a licence for 2007." Last month, authorities searched Ullrich's Swiss home as part of an investigation into alleged doping, state prosecutors in Bonn and the country's federal crime office said. Ullrich won gold and silver medals for Germany at the 2000 Olympics. |
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Ullrich won the Tour de France in 1997 and has been second five times.
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