Zabel out of Olympics, uncertain for World's

Erik Zabel (Milram)

Erik Zabel (Milram) (Image credit: AFP)

Following a meeting with the German Olympic Committee (DOSB) on Tuesday, Erik Zabel will not be part of the German team at next year's Olympic Games in Beijing. Zabel, who admitted to using the banned blood booster EPO in 1996, met with DOSB president Thomas Back and secretary general Michael Vesper in Frankfurt where he decided to withdraw from the Olympic road race so as not to "burden the German Olympic team with his doping past," according to a DOSB statement.

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