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• Tour de France Top Three Confirmed to Compete in USA Pro Cycling Challenge
  August 2nd, 2011
  

  Cadel Evans, Andy Schleck and Fränk Schleck Headline Colorado Race along with Top American Rider Tom Danielson and Italian Ivan Basso DENVER (August 2, 2011) – USA Pro Cycling Challenge [...]

• Voeckler Retains The Yellow As Contador Soaks Up attacks
  July 16th, 2011
  

  Written by: Justin Davis (AFP) PLATEAU DE BEILLE, France, July 16, 2011 – Frenchman Thomas Voeckler stubbornly held on to the Tour de France yellow jersey on Saturday as reigning [...]

• The Tour de France Yellow Jersey Favorites in 2011
  July 2nd, 2011
  

  The favorites for the yellow jersey for the 98th edition of the Tour de France, to be held July 2-24: Alberto Contador (ESP) Saxo Bank-Sungard Possessing a rare mix of [...]

• Basso Gets Nod To Lead Liquigas Assault on Tour de France
  June 25th, 2011
  

  PARIS, June 24, 2011 (AFP) – Italian veteran Ivan Basso, 33, will lead the Liquigas team in this year’s Tour de France, which begins on July 2, his team confirmed [...]

• Boom Starts His Dauphine With A Bang
  June 5th, 2011
  

  SAINT-JEAN-DE-MAURIENNE, France, June 5, 2011 (AFP) – Flying Dutchman Lars Boom powered to the overall lead of the Criterium du Dauphine stage race after dominating his rivals in the opening [...]

• Tour de France Contenders To Test Fitness At Dauphine
  June 3rd, 2011
  

  PARIS, June 3, 2011 – Australian Cadel Evans and Belgium’s Jurgen van den Broeck are among the big names hoping to lay their Tour de France credentials on the line [...]

• Basso Suffers Facial Injuries In Training Crash
  May 17th, 2011
  

  ROME, May 17, 2011 – Tour of Italy champion Ivan Basso needed 15 stitches after suffering a facial injury during a training crash on Tuesday. Basso revealed his misfortune on [...]

• Evans, Basso, and Menchov At Start Line At Tour de Romandie
  April 25th, 2011
  

  GENEVA, April 25, 2011 (AFP) – Slovenian Simon Spilak faces a tough challenge to keep his yellow jersey for Tour de Romandie, which starts Tuesday, with Australian Cadel Evans, Italian [...]

• Giro d’Italia – Teams and Main Rider List
  April 21st, 2011
  

  Italy’s Stefano Garzelli, winner in 2000, will be wearing the number one jersey in the Giro which will start May 7 Turin, the organization of the Giro said Thursday . [...]

• Basso To Bow Out of Giro
  April 21st, 2011
  

  Tour of Italy champion Ivan Basso will not be defending his title when the Giro begins on May 7 in Turin, he said Thursday. Instead Lampre’s Michele Scarponi, who was [...]

• Ailing Basso Ends Basque Country Campaign
  April 6th, 2011
  

  PARIS, April 6, 2011 (AFP) – Tour of Italy champion Ivan Basso pulled out of the Tour of the Basque Country on Wednesday due to illness, his Liquigas team announced. [...]

• Powerhouse Liquigas-Cannondale Team Steps Up To DoubleTap
  January 25th, 2011
  

  Team Liquigas-Cannondale was the most successful Grand Tour team of 2010, taking victories in the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España. The formula for the team will not change [...]

• Drugs and Engines Mar Cycling’s 2010 Season
  December 16th, 2010
  

  Written by: Justin Davis PARIS – The scourge of doping blighted cycling once more in 2010, where the most gripping Tour de France duel in years was marred by the [...]

• Cycling Stars Pay Tribute As Well-Liked Coach Dies
  December 13th, 2010
  

  PARIS – Australian Michael Rogers and Italy’s Ivan Basso were among a number of top cyclists to pay tribute to Aldo Sassi after the popular Italian coach died in the [...]

• Mapei Founder Dead At 51
  December 13th, 2010
  

  PARIS – The founder of the Research Centre of Mapei Sport, Italian Aldo Sassi, died during the night Sunday into Monday of a brain tumor at the age 51, it [...]

• Ivan Basso and Teammates Prepare For The 2011 Season
  December 3rd, 2010
  

  VAN BASSO AND TEAMMATES PREPARE FOR NEXT SEASON ON THE SNOW AT PASSO SAN PELLEGRINO The first Liquigas Sport stage of the season ends in success Passo San Pellegrino (TN [...]

• Ivan Basso Will Begin Season At The Tour de San Luis, Argentina
  November 10th, 2010
  

  ROME – The winner of the last Giro d’Italia, Ivan Basso (Liquigas), will begin his season at the Tour de San Luis, Argentina (January 17-23 2011), “he said in an [...]

• The Tour de France Yellow Jersey Men Look Onwards and Upwards
  October 20th, 2010
  

  Written by: Justin Davis PARIS – The potential heirs to defending yellow jersey champion Alberto Contador were given sufficient warning on Tuesday: the 2011 Tour de France will be won [...]

• Basso Makes Emotional Tour Return
  July 3rd, 2010
  

  ROTTERDAM, Netherlands – Italian star Ivan Basso admitted the emotions were in full flow as he prepared to complete his return to the Tour de France this week. Basso returns [...]

• Basso Relishing His Tour Return
  June 28th, 2010
  

  PARIS, June 28, 2010 – Italy’s Ivan Basso admitted Monday he is relishing his return to the Tour de France five years after last competing as he leads a Liquigas [...]

• Tour de France 2010 Contenders
  June 27th, 2010
  

  Favorites for the yellow jersey for the 97th edition of the 2010 Tour de France, to be held July 3-25: Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana Labeled the ‘best in the world’ [...]

• Count Basso Among My Tour Rivals, Says Contador
  June 6th, 2010
  

  Written by: Justin Davis EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France, June 5, 2010 – Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will count Ivan Basso among his biggest challengers this year after the Italian’s [...]

• Basso Basks In Pink, But Can’t Wait For The Tour
  June 1st, 2010
  

  Written by: Justin Davis PARIS, June 1, 2010 – Recently-crowned Giro d’Italia champion Ivan Basso has promised to compete with the few real contenders for cycling’s prestigious yellow jersey after [...]

• Redeemed Basso In The Pink of Health
  May 30th, 2010
  

  VERONA, Italy, May 31, 2009 (AFP) – While American cycling legend Lance Armstrong fends off yet more accusations over whether he is clean or not, Italian rider Ivan Basso can [...]

• Basso Finds Redemption With Second Giro Win
  May 30th, 2010
  

  Italian Ivan Basso claimed his second Tour of Italy title as Swede Gustav Erik Larsson won the 21st and final stage of the race, a 15km time-trial around Verona on [...]

• Tschopp Wins Giro 20th Stage, Basso Holds Onto Pink
  May 29th, 2010
  

  Swiss rider Johann Tschopp won the 20th and penultimate stage of the Tour of Italy from Bormio to here on Saturday as Italian Ivan Basso held onto the leader’s pink [...]

• Scarponi Wins 19th Stage of Giro, Basso In Pink
  May 28th, 2010
  

  Former Giro winner Ivan Basso took over the leader’s pink jersey after Michele Scarponi won an epic 19th stage of the Tour of Italy on Friday. Basso finished second on [...]

• Evans Moves Up At Giro d’Italia Stage 16
  May 25th, 2010
  

  Cadel Evans climbed from fifth to fourth in the overall standings at the Giro d’Italia Tuesday with a second-place finish in the 12.9-kilometer time trial up the Plan de Corones. [...]

• Basso Says He’s Cycling Clean
  May 23rd, 2010
  

  MONTE ZONCOLAN, Italy, May 23, 2010 – Italian Ivan Basso distanced himself from the murky world of doping after his impressive win on the Tour of Italy’s epic 15th stage [...]

• Basso Wins Epic Mountain Stage, Has Sights On Pink Jersey
  May 23rd, 2010
  

  MONTE ZONCOLAN, Italy, May 23, 2010 – Former champion Ivan Basso of Liquigas powered into contention for the Tour of Italy’s pink jersey after a stunning display of fluid climbing [...]

• Evans Targets First Tour Win In Italy
  May 7th, 2010
  

  AMSTERDAM, May 7, 2010 (AFP) – The Tour of Italy, unusually, starts off in the Netherlands on Saturday with a host of big names in with a chance of winning [...]

• Giro d’Italia – Three Favorites Declared, Another Hidden
  May 6th, 2010
  

  AMSTERDAM (Netherlands), May 6, 2010 (AFP) – Three favorites, Spaniard Carlos Sastre, Cadel Evans of Australia, and Italy’s Ivan Basso, have openly declared their ambitions for victory in the Giro [...]

• Riccò Takes Stage 2 At Giro del Trentino
  April 21st, 2010
  

  Italian Riccardo Ricco (Ceramica Flaminia), who has finished serving a twenty-month suspension for doping in late March, won the 2nd stage of Tour of Trentino (north-east) on Wednesday in San [...]

• Tour of Trentino A Hint Of The Giro
  April 19th, 2010
  

  MILAN, April 19, 2010 (AFP) – Some of the contenders in the Tour of Italy which starts on May 8 in Amsterdam, will test and measure them selves at the [...]

• Wiggins, Basso and Schlecks At Catalunya Tour
  March 21st, 2010
  

  Two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will be among the big names missing when the Tour of Catalunya provides an early season tester to the stage race specialists this [...]

• Italy Names Formidable Team For Worlds Road Race
  September 14th, 2009
  

  ROME, Sept 14, 2009 (AFP) – Alessandro Ballan and former Tour of Italy winners Damiano Cunego and Ivan Basso have been named in a formidable Italian team for the world [...]

• David Moncoutie Takes Tour of Spain 13th Stage Win
  September 12th, 2009
  

  SIERRA NEVADA, Spain, Sept 12, 2009 (AFP) – France’s David Moncoutie, riding for the Cofidis team, on Saturday won the 13th stage of the Tour of Spain, a 172km ride [...]

• Basso Tips Armstrong For Tour Success
  July 2nd, 2009
  

  ROME, July 2, 2009 (AFP) – Former Tour of Italy winner Ivan Basso on Thursday tipped his great rival Lance Armstrong to challenge for an eighth Tour de France title. [...]

• Ivan Basso Pulls Out of Dauphine
  June 12th, 2009
  

  Italy’s Ivan Basso has pulled out of the Dauphine Libere with a fever, his Liquigas team announced Thursday. Basso, who finished Thursday’s grueling stage up Mont Ventoux in 35th position [...]

• Basso Heads Into Giro As The Favourite, Armstrong Biggest Fan Draw
  May 9th, 2009
  

  by Barnaby Chesterman ROME, May 8, 2009 (AFP) – Former seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong may have insisted he is not in the running for overall victory but [...]

• Armstrong ‘Not Giro Favourite’ Says World Champ Ballan
  May 5th, 2009
  

  ROME, May 5, 2009 (AFP) – World champion cyclist Alessandro Ballan says former Tour of Italy winner Ivan Basso is the favourite for this year’s event over debutant Lance Armstrong. [...]

• Basso Records First Win Since Doping Ban
  April 25th, 2009
  

  Disgraced Italian rider Ivan Basso won his first race since returning from a two-year doping suspension on Saturday, winning the Tour of Trentino. The 31-year-old’s compatriot Danilo Di Luca won [...]

• Ivan Basso Finishes Third At Japan Cup On His Return To Saddle
  October 27th, 2008
  

  PARIS, Oct 26, 2008 (AFP) – Italian rider Ivan Basso finished third in his first race since March 2007 after being swept up in the Operation Puerto doping scandal. The [...]

• Ivan Basso Outlines His Racing Plans After his Doping Ban Expires
  October 18th, 2008
  

  VARESE, Italy, Oct 17, 2008 (AFP) – Italian cycling star Ivan Basso will make his comeback, following a doping ban, next week in Japan before racing against old rival Lance [...]

• Basso Worth A Second Chance, Says Liquigas Chief
  July 18th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis NARBONNE, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) – Disgraced Italian cycling star Ivan Basso deserves a second chance of resurrecting his career, the Italian’s future manager at the [...]

• IvanBasso Cannot Be A Role Model For Young Cyclists, Says David Millar
  May 10th, 2008
  

  PALERMO, Italy, May 10, 2008 (AFP) – Disgraced cyclist Ivan Basso should not be held up as a model for young riders, claimed Scottish rider David Millar on Saturday. Millar [...]

• Ivan Basso Signs Two-Year Contract With Liquigas After His Doping Ban
  April 25th, 2008
  

  ROME, April 24, 2008 (AFP) – Italian cyclist Ivan Basso, who was suspended for two years for his implication in the Operation Puerto scandal, said Friday he hopes to return [...]

• Operation Puerto affair reopened
  February 14th, 2008
  

  MADRID, Feb 14, 2008 (AFP) – The Operation Puerto blood-doping affair involving about 60 cyclists and which erupted in May 2006, has been reopened, Madrid prosecutors’ said on Thursday. A [...]

• Basso: Suspension was ‘best thing’ to happen to him
  January 17th, 2008
  

  Basso: Suspension was ‘best thing’ to happen to him By Agence France Presse Filed: January 17, 2008 Disgraced former Giro d’Italia champion Ivan Basso said Thursday that his two-year doping [...]