Originally Posted by El Diablo Rojo
Look I'm huge fan of Zabel, but he didn't just come out of the big blue sky and confess. He knew, just like Riis, that he would eventually be implicated in the growing Telekom scandal. It was damage control plain and simple. Get your message out first and control the spin.
I don't think Zabel had a lot to lose, especially since D'hont himself said Zabel just dabbled with epo. My take (from Hell On Wheels) is that Zabel and Aldag are really really close and he came out at the same time to share the pain with him.