Frommert steps down from NADA post

Christian Frommert, director of Sponsoring Communications for Deutsche Telekom, the parent firm of the sponsor for T-Mobile Team, has withdrawn from the Board of Trustees of the German National Anti-Doping Agency, it was announced Thursday. He said that he wished to increase the independence of the NADA and remove its connection to the team.

"Deutsche Telekom will remain a supporter of the NADA and continue to support the work which it does, which has become and will continue to become very important," Frommert told the dpa press agency.

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