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Ivan Basso Admits to Doping
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by Jordan Yerman | May 7, 2007 at 07:59 am
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A lifelong cyclist, I love watching the Tour De France. Lately, though, the sport has become mired in scandal after scandal-- one hopes that the sport can maintain a shred of glory. While I understand that chemistry is as big a part of professional sports as training, I long for the days when it was human body and bike against steep, steep mountain.
Italian cycling star Ivan Basso admitted to the anti-doping prosecutor of the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Monday that he was involved in the Operation Puerto blood-doping scandal.Coni said the 29-year-old rider came to its offices of his own accord and offered to cooperate with its investigation and clarify his part in the scandal.
Basso, last year's Tour of Italy winner and a pre-race favourite for the 2007 Tour de France, is one of dozens of riders implicated in the Operation Puerto doping affair.
Last week, Basso parted company with the Discovery Channel team after Coni had called him to a hearing to answer doping charges.
Until now, he had protested his innocence.
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at 07:24 on May 7th, 2007
My dad just told me that Basso abruptly quit the Discovery Channel team just before he was to be made captain, which made lots of folks suspicious. By the way, shout-out to my dad, who's pushing 60 and rides centuries (100 mile one-day rides)... now that's real cycling!