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Jan Ullrich ( German pronunciation: [jan ˈʊlʁɪç] ⓘ; born 2 December 1973) is a German former professional road bicycle racer. Ullrich won gold and silver medals in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He won the 1999 Vuelta a España and the HEW Cyclassics in front of a home crowd in Hamburg in 1997.
Sep 29, 2021 · Former cyclist Jan Ullrich has said that he was “nearly dead” before a visit from Lance Armstrong, his rival during the 1990s and 2000s, helped him turn his life around.
Jun 18, 2022 · Lance Armstrong (left) is not surprised Jan Ullrich of Germany (right), who was second in the 1998 Tour de France, has been revealed to have doped on that Tour. File photograph: Reuters
Sep 10, 2023 · Jan Ullrich has admitted he was close to death after losing control of his life in 2018 but suggests the two-year process of creating an intimate documentary series about...
Jan Ullrich ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Radrennfahrer. Als erster und bisher einziger Deutscher gewann Ullrich 1997 die Tour de France, die er zudem fünfmal als Zweiter beendete. Er gewann bei den Olympischen Spielen 2000 die Goldmedaille im Straßenrennen und die Silbermedaille im Einzelzeitfahren. Er war Sieger der Vuelta a España 1999 und ...
Nov 21, 2023 · Jan Ullrich has opened up for the first time about blood doping during his career, with the 1997 Tour de France winner expected to make a fuller, detailed confession in a four-part documentary...
Sep 27, 2021 · Jan Ullrich has spoken out about how he was close to suffering the same fate as Marco Pantani, saying that he was "almost dead" when Lance Armstrong went to see him in 2018.
Sep 14, 2023 · Former pro cyclist and Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich will be the focus of a four-part Amazon Prime documentary, called Der Gejagte (The Prey). The show...
Dec 4, 2023 · New four-part documentary on the Tour de France winner's troubled life is available to watch in Germany.
In this extract from his 2022 biography of Ullrich, 'Jan Ullrich - The Best There Never Was', Daniel Friebe touches on a much wider theme in his book - how Ullrich had imprisoned himself in silence, but also the reasons why, and what he perhaps needed to do to break the impasse.
