Ullrich Joins Forces with Armstrong Against Landis?

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Updated: 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
Jan Ullrich is looking for a new team so he can end his career with a Tour de France victory next year.

The German rider, who was barred from the Tour de France and fired by his T-Mobile team in a doping scandal, told the Swiss daily Blick on Tuesday that he was in contact with Lance Armstrong’s Discovery Channel team but that no concrete agreement had been reached.

“I have always said, ’I will finish with a Tour victory,”’ Ullrich said. “Unfortunately, this year I was prevented from doing so. That’s why I will try to add another year
Ullrich, who won the 1997 Tour and was runner-up five times behind the seven-time winner Armstrong, was considered a leading contender for this year’s Tour. He was forced out on the eve of the race because of his links to a Spanish doping investigation            Slide show: The Week in Sports Pictures



Earlier, in an interview with Swiss tabloid newspaper Blick, the German rider maintained his innocence and said he refused to accept his sacking.

“I do not accept the termination of my contract because in my opinion there is no reason for it,” Ullrich said. “I expected more support from the team.

“I have never cheated another rider in my whole career. That is a fact. This year I have undergone 11 unannounced doping tests in training and countless out-of-competition tests, all of which were negative.”

Leipheimer joins Discovery Channel
Levi Leipheimer will leave Team Gerolsteiner at the end of the season and sign for Discovery Channel, according to Gerolsteiner bike sponsor Specialized.

"My best results, wins at the Tour of Germany and Dauphiné Libéré, happened on my S-Works Tarmac SL, but Discovery (Channel) made me an offer I could not refuse," Leipheimer said.

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First Napster and now this.

 

The last I read was that Armstrong and Discovery are interested not in Ullrich but in Floyd Landis.

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Cycling/2006/07/23/1698984-ap.html

 

Maybe Floyd told Lance to fuck off.

 

Or maybe your big "scoop" thread just went down the shitter.

 

Considering Landis is about to have a hip replaced, I can't imagine anyone's too concerned with either signing him for next year or competing against him next year.

 

Considering how well he pedalled with a busted hip, and considering how well Bo Jackson played major league baseball with an artifical hip, I'm not worried about Landis.

Landis will be competitive again. Maybe not next year, but in a couple years.

 

Agree, to an extent. But I was only talking about next year.

 

I don't remember Bo doing much with the ceramic hip. He was probably my favorite all-time athlete -- maybe tied with Herschel -- but he was a sad sight there at the end.

 

That was a century ago in hip replacement technology time.

 

d_b, I think you catch a lot of shit on here. Some warranted, some not. But sweet BBJ, you look like a damned fool on this one.

That being said, it looks like Armstrong is stockpiling a pretty good Discovery squad for next year with Levi, and possibly Floyd or Jan.