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 race and later fired by his T-Mobile team after a Spanish police investigation alleged that he was given EPO and other banned substances by Spanish sports doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.

``As you know I've made a conscious decision not to comment on many inaccurate articles in detail. Otherwise, I'd spend the whole day rectifying facts,'' Ullrich said. ``Of course, it's sometimes difficult to put up with.

``When, for example, I read that the affair concerning the Spanish doctor had spread to Hamburg and that my name came up in connection with this, I can only shake my head.''

Ullrich was commenting on a report on the German television channel ARD on Friday alleging that Fuentes' collaborators had set up shop in Hamburg and distributed drugs to cyclists between May and June.