Milram denies interest in Ullrich

by Susan Westemeyer

Team Milram has denied reports that it is interested in signing Jan Ullrich. "We have no intention of recruiting Jan Ullrich.," said team manager Gianluigi Stanga Friday. "We're not in talks with him or his advisors. It's true our recruitment campaign is not over, but hiring Jan Ullrich is absolutely not part of our plans."

German media reports earlier in the week indicated that Milram, Discovery Channel and Astana were all interested in signing Ullrich, who was fired earlier in the season by T-Mobile Team over his involvement in the Operation Puerto doping scandal.