Hamburg  - Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich said the question of whether he was ever guilty of doping would be answered in a book he intended to write.

"These questions are not that easy to answer. Such things will be written about in a book which I will write for my fans and also for myself," he was quoted as saying in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

The 1997 Tour winner said that he would give himself as much time as he needed to write the book.

Ullrich suggested in the interview that not everything had been above board during his career.

Dusseldorf - The former boss of the Coast cycling team was on Wednesday ordered by a German court to pay Jan Ullrich 340,000 euros (432,000 dollars) plus interest for failing to honour outstanding wages due to the now retired cyclist.

Guenther Dahms refused to pay Ullrich the money due to him because he was of the opinion the 1997 Tour de France winner was doped during his time with the Coast team.

"It is good that truth won out. It was easy for me today, telling the truth is always easy," said Ullrich after the verdict from a court in Dusseldorf.