Patrik Sinkewitz Quotes

I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.

My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.

The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught!

The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008, and everyone was satisfied with me. But I wasn't. I always wanted to improve.

Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.

I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

I rubbed the contents of one bag onto my upper arm on the evening of June 7, just before I went to bed. I thought: Well, it can't hurt. I flushed the packaging down the toilet.

Riders called me up afterwards to say that they had had no other choice. I couldn't understand the way they changed their tune.

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all day long.

I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director at T-Mobile. He advised me to tell the truth.