Jan: Who ... Me?

Jan Ullrich says he is tired of reading inaccurate "rumors" about himself stemming from his alleged link to the Spanish doping scandal.

"Hardly a day goes by without the media publishing some speculation about me," Ullrich wrote Saturday in a statement on his website. Ullrich, like a lot of athletes these days, deals with the media by issuing statements on their websites.

Jan, who won the Tour de France last century, was banned from competing in this year's race and later fired by his T-Mobile team after a Spanish police investigation alleged that he was given EPO and other banned substances by Spanish sports doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.

"As you know I've made a conscious decision not to comment on many inaccurate articles in detail. Otherwise, I'd spend the whole day rectifying facts," Ullrich said on the website.

In other words, he's not taking Bad Boy Floyd's approach.

"Of course, it's sometimes difficult to put up with," he continues. "When, for example, I read that the affair concerning the Spanish doctor had spread to Hamburg and that my name came up in connection with this, I can only shake my head" Ullrich wrote.

We're shaking our heads, too, Jan.

Meanwhile, the T-Mobile makeover is ongoing.
Britain's Mark Cavendish, 21, has signed on with the former team of Ullrich and Andreas Kloden, the Tour de France runnerup who is also leaving the team.

Cavendish was leading the points classification after two second-placed finishes in the Tour of Britain.