Jens Heppner has been involved in cycling since 1974, and has been team manager of the Professional Continental Team Wiesenhof-Felt since 2006. But now he says, "I have already started thinking about doing something other than cycling in the future."
Wiesenhof announced in May that it would stop sponsoring the team at the end of the season, because of "the current situation in professional cycling". Ironically, the announcement was made almost simultaneously with the press conference at which Heppner's former team-mates Erik Zabel and Rolf Aldag admitted to having used doping products while riding for Team Telekom. Heppner, who rode for Telekom from 1992 to 2002, has consistently denied ever having doped.
