Cycling’s Drug Problem Leads T-Mobile to End Sponsorship

New York Times, November 28, 2007 — T-Mobile, the professional cycling team that began this year with the sport’s largest budget and an ambitious plan to reform the sport’s drug problem, lost its sponsor yesterday because of continuing doping controversies...In announcing the decision to end its sponsorship contract two years early, Deutsche Telekom made it clear that cycling teams had become a marketing nightmare.