Cycling boss knew Ullrich used EPO claims report

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BERLIN (AFP) — Rudy Pevenage, ex-boss of cycling team Deutsche Telekom, knew former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich used banned-blood booster EPO in 1996, according to a report in Monday's edition of German weekly magazine Focus.

In an interview with former Telekom masseur Jef d'Hont, whose memoirs led to a string of high-profile doping confessions earlier this year, the Belgian says Pevenage told him Ullrich used Erythropoietin (EPO) in 1996 "because everyone else was".

D'Hont is set to publish a second book early next year after his first book claimed he saw 1997 Tour winner Ullrich being injected with EPO.

Ullrich, 33, retired from cycling in February after he was sacked in July 2006 by T-Mobile, who changed their name from Deutsche Telekom in 2004....