Former Telekom rider Dietz tells of EPO use in the 90s


FRANKFURT: A former teammate of Jan Ullrich has admitted using banned performance-enhancing drugs with the assistance of two team doctors. 

Bert Dietz, who rode for the Telekom team between 1994 and 1998, said he was introduced to the use of the blood booster EPO by the two doctors, Andreas Schmid and Lothar Heinrich. 

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