Olympic and world cycling champion Paolo Bettini supplied German
cyclist Patrik Sinkewitz with doping products, television reports
said in Berlin on Wednesday.
Sinkewitz, 26, was dismissed by T-Mobile during this year's Tour
de France when abnormal levels of testosterone were found in his
blood during a pre-race drugs test.
The German cyclist later admitted he had used "Testogel" patches
to help aid recovery.
But according to reports on German channel ZDF, Sinkewitz is
quoted in a document as naming 2004 Olympic road champion and
defending world road champion Bettini, plus retired Italian Davide
Bramati, as his suppliers.
"I got the Testogel from Italian riders and I can also name
them, they were Davide Bramati and Bettini," he is quoted as
saying.
Sinkewitz and Bettini were team-mates at professional teams
Mapei and Quick-Step, before the German switched to T-mobile in
2005.
He wants to help doping investigators as a principal witness in
order to reduce his ban, which is expected to be two years.
(Xinhua News Agency September 27, 2007)