"I want to beat Lance"
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ByEurosport
Published 06/10/2003 at 15:23 GMT
"I want to beat Lance. For that I need a strong team, and here I've got one" said a smiling Jan Ullrich at a press conference Monday marking his return to Telekom in 2004. "I no longer want to play around with my future. I've been often enough second of t
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After the one-year hiatus that followed injury and disgrace for using party pills, the only German ever to have the Tour made a breathtaking comeback in 2003, finishing second for a fifth time.
Now, after spending his entire pro career from 1995 to 2002 at Telekom is back with the soon-to-be renamed T-Mobile team.
Ullrich told the packed news conference in Bonn that beyond preventing Lance Armstrong's quest for a record sixth Tour win, he will also aim for a second gold medal in Athens after the one collected in Sydney in 2000.
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