Ullrich's manager denies Hamburg charges

The latest revelations over doctor Eufemiano Feuntes' post-arrest activities in Hamburg, Germany, include a calendar page indicating that 'Number 1' underwent blood extraction and transfusion on June 20 this year.

According to Spanish investigators, this code name refers to Jan Ullrich. However, Ullrich's manager Wolfgang Strohband denied that the rider was in Germany on June 20: "After his victory in the Tour de Suisse on June 18, Jan went straight home to his house in Scherzingen [Switzerland]," Strohband told the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper.

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