Jan Ullrich's Demons: Back to a Detox Clinic

At Christmas the feelings intensify, but loneliness and depression are also accentuated.

Slippery path to the precipice.

The clutches of despair have once again caught

, winner of the Tour de France (1997), who since his retirement in 2007, fell into the tunnel of alcohol and drug use.

The former runner, who in recent months had shown great improvement regarding his dependencies, has been admitted to a detoxification clinic in Switzerland.

The blame for her relapsed: the break with her romantic partner.

The newspaper Bild says that a former cyclist was admitted to a center in Mexico after suffering a crisis after celebrating his 48th birthday in

. He was then taken to a center in Switzerland.

Ullrich was a physical marvel, a cyclist with enormous power, but very fragile mentally. In his native Rostock, a city in the former Democratic Germany, they trained him to be a privileged athlete, but they neglected the psychological preparation. After his retreat, precipitated by his presence in Operation Puerto, he descended into hell, but in recent years he seemed more serene. '' Three years ago I had big problems. He was just like Marco Pantani, close to death. But I already gave up alcohol and drugs. Now I live in a healthy way, my girlfriend cooks very healthy for me. I already sleep well, my brain is clear and my body is in shape, '' the German confessed to

on the podcast 'The Move'. And it is that those who were rivals on the road, are now friends. The American came to his aid three years ago, visiting him at the clinic where he was being held, and a few days ago he visited him at the hospital in Mexico. Now, the Texan hopes that the German will abandon that well that threatens to devour him, as happened to that long list of broken toys in the history of the sport. In Armstrong's mirror the image of

is reflected

, consumed by his own demons, as also happened to

or

.

This year,

, at the Olympic Games, conveyed the message of the need to take care of the mental health of elite athletes.

For the painful memory of the cases of

,

,

or

.

A payroll he enters, Jan Ullrich, who closes the year in a detox clinic.

A sad Christmas for the Nibelung.

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