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• 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 from Berja to Sierra Nevada.
  Controversial Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde, of the Caisse D’Epargne team, remains in the overall lead [...]

• 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.
  Armstrong won the last of his seven yellow jerseys in a row in 2005 but this year at the age [...]

• 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 for a 30th spot in the overall standings, has targeted September’s Tour of Spain as his goal in the second [...]

• 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 the Texan will still be the major draw at the centenary Tour of Italy which begins with a team time-trial in Venice [...]

• 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.

  Seven-time Tour de France champion Armstrong will be competing in his first Giro after coming out of retirement last year. [...]

• 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 the fourth and final stage, a 214.2 kilometres ride, with Basso finishing fifth.
  It was the first victory [...]

• 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 30-year-old, now riding for the Liquigas team, finished behind compatriots Damiano Cunego – winner of the Tour of Lombardy – [...]

• 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 Armstrong at the Giro d’Italia next May.
  Former CSC and Discovery Channel rider Basso said Friday he will make his [...]

• 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 Liquigas team said Friday.
  Basso is nearing the end of a ban handed down after he admitted, without
  having tested positive for banned substances, [...]

• 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 said that despite 30-year-old Basso – who is allowed to ride competitively again from October 24 2008 and has agreed [...]

• 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 to the top with new team Liquigas.
  The 30-year-old Basso, who is allowed to ride competitively again from October 24 [...]

• 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 raid on the Madrid laboratory of Dr Eufemiano Fuentes uncovered doping products, bags of blood and codenames which appeared to link top athletes to a highly-organised system of [...]

• 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 suspension was the best thing to happen to him.
  Basso was tipped to win the 2006 Tour de France, shortly after cruising to victory in the Giro, but he [...]