[1] For winning the gold medal at the Olympic Games 2000 Pollack was decorated with the Silver Laurel Leaf by Bundespräsident Johannes Rau (President of the Federal Republic of Germany) on 2 February 2001[2] At the madison, Pollack rode together with Guido Fulst, and finished in sixth place.

At the 2008 Olympic Games, Pollack rode the madison together with Roger Kluge, and they finished fifth.

[1] Olaf Pollack began his road cycling career at small German team Agro-Adler-Brandenburg in 1997.

The highlight of his road cycling career was wearing the pink jersey as leader of the general classification at the 2004 and 2006 Giro d'Italia.

In August 2009, an eye problem made him end his cycling career, but a month later it became known that he had failed a drug test.