Germany's Ullrich hits back at team boss

BERLIN, July 27 (Reuters) -- German cyclist Jan Ullrich said he would speak to his T-Mobile team manager about comments questioning his commitment.

T-Mobile manager Walter Godefroot had criticised Ullrich, saying the 1997 Tour de France winner "cycled to live," while six-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong "lives for cycling" after the German failed to gain a top-three finish at the Tour for the first time on Sunday.

"I cannot let that go," five-times tour runner-up Ullrich said late on Monday on a television talk show.

"You should ask the people who I work with and not someone like Walter Godefroot who I speak to on the telephone twice a year -- if at all," he added.

Ullrich said he was extremely angry about Godefroot's comments but would try to talk to him at the HEW Cyclassics event in Hamburg next week.

"I will clear up what he said. If he says it to my face I will take the appropriate steps," Ullrich said, without specifying what those might be.

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