German former sprinter Erik Zabel has admitted that he used doping products and blood transfusions throughout his professional career in a new interview with Germany's leading newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The fresh admission comes after Zabel confessed in May 2007 that he used banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) 'once' in 1996.
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