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BERLIN (AP) _ German Chancellor Angela Merkel has turned down a request to meet with disgraced cyclist Jan Ullrich, who retired from the sport earlier this year after being implicated in the Spanish doping scandal. One of Ullrich's friends and business partners had sent an e-mail to Merkel's staff suggesting a meeting, her office said Tuesday. The aim of the meeting would have been to ``rehabilitate'' the reputation of Ullrich and recall his merits and performances. Ullrich, the ...

BERLIN (AP) _ Jan Ullrich has denied any wrongdoing despite his DNA sample being matched last week to blood bags seized in a Spanish doping scandal. Ullrich retired from cycling on Feb. 26, 10 months after his name surfaced in Operation Puerto, which led to the 1997 Tour de France champion being excluded from last year's race. He has denied using any banned substances. The German cyclist, in a statement ...

Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich, still fighting doping allegations, has quit the Swiss cycling federation and is looking for another racing licence for next year. Ullrich said on his website Thursday that he was leaving Swiss Cycling because of what he called its ``slanderous attitude'' toward him. ``(This) doesn't mean that I am ending my career. There are contacts to other cycling federations about a licence for 2007,'' ...

Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich accused the Swiss cycling federation on Saturday of implying that investigations are proceeding against him in the Spanish doping scandal. The 1997 Tour champion said on his website that he is not a target of the Spanish investigation and that a press release from Swiss Cycling on Friday was misleading. The press release said, according to the German rider's website, that Swiss Cycling had received documents from Spanish investigators and now had ...

Former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich ended his honeymoon Friday and returned home following a search of his Swiss residence in connection with the Spanish doping scandal. ``My wife Sara and I are deeply hurt by the search and seizure that was widely reported in the media,'' Ullrich said on his website. ``Because of the background of that incident we drove home.'' Police in the Swiss province of Thurgau, ...

German authorities secured DNA samples from former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich in a raid earlier this week on his Swiss residence, according to a report released on Thursday. Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung said in an advance release of its Friday edition that authorities had secured samples of the German rider's DNA that were to be compared with frozen blood seized at a Madrid clinic as part of a doping ...

The Swiss residence of cyclist Jan Ullrich and nine other homes and offices of people suspected of involvement in the Spanish doping scandal were searched on Wednesday. A statement by Germany's Federal Crime Office did not give any names. But Ullrich's manager, Wolfgang Strohband, confirmed that his and his client's homes were raided. The raids _ both in Germany and abroad _ were part of the fraud investigation by Bonn ...

Germany's public television network ARD will terminate its contract with 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich at year's end. Ullrich had been paid up to US$152,000 for exclusive interviews, diaries and appearances in ARD entertainment shows. ARD gave no reason for ending the contract, which had run since 1999 except for a one-year break in 2002 when Ullrich was banned for testing positive for amphetamines. ...

Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich said he is tired of reading inaccurate ``rumours'' about himself stemming from his alleged link to the Spanish doping scandal. ``Hardly a day goes by without the media publishing some speculation about me,'' Ullrich wrote Saturday in a statement on his website. The 1997 Tour champion was banned from competing in this year's ...

Jan Ullrich has reached an agreement with T-Mobile to end his contract after having been fired by the team amid doping allegations. The 1997 Tour de France winner was let go July 21 as a result of being linked to a widespread doping scandal in Spain centered around Madrid doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. ``Jan Ullrich and T-Mobile have ended their negotiations and agreed on an early end ...