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Jan Ullrich used EPO in 1998 Tour de France
Updated On: 25 July, 2013 01:44 AM IST | | AFP
Italian Marco Pantani and Germany's Jan Ullrich both used the banned blood-booster erythropoetin (EPO) during the 1998 Tour de France, a French parliamentary commission report has said.
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Pantani, who died of a cocaine overdose in 2004, won the controversial race, with Ullrich taking second place.
The report identified a host of other riders who had cheated with EPO, including top sprinters Erik Zabel of Germany and Italian Mario Cipollini.u00a0
Jan Ullrich
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