After four-year absence, Basso to ride in 2010 Tour de France
USA Today (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Former Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso will return to the Tour de France in 2010 following a four-year absence.
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Liquigas 2010: Shades of T-Mobile?
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Looking at various news reports regarding next year's racing for the boys in green, it looks like some polemica might be hitting the Leaky Gas bus. Ivan Basso has declared that he is going to race the Giro/Tour double this coming year while Vincenzo Nibali is currently trying to find a Basso voodoo doll so that he can set things straight... As it stands right now, this is how it is going to be for...
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Pellizotti ready to share Giro leadership with Basso
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Franco Pellizotti is pleased to split the Liquigas team leadership at the Giro d'Italia with former winner Ivan Basso. The Italian explained at a Liquigas training camp yesterday in Moena, Italy, that Basso's presence will ease the pressure on both himself and the team. "For our team the Giro is very important, and all eyes will be on us without all the big names that we had this year,"...
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Liquigas adds nine for 2010
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Liquigas is close to finalizing its line-up for next season, bringing on nine new riders for 2010. The top Italian ProTour team has added some young talent to its roster of established veterans, still anchored by the likes of Ivan Basso, Daniele Bennati, Roman Kreuziger, Vicenzo Nibali and Pranco Pellizotti. The top new names include Croatian Robert Kiserlovski and Italian neo-pro Elia Viviani, young...
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Coming Back to Prominence: Apologetic Dopers Find Forgiveness While Defiant Cheats Suffer Fan's Wrath
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
One of the most interesting facts to come out of EP 's recent poll (results below and still time to vote!) regarding past dopers is that those riders who were contrite and apologetic seem to fare far better in the eyes of cycling fans than those that continue to lie and stonewall authorities. The question asked of EP 's readers was: "If you could eliminate one rider from professional cycling,...
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Can the Giro d'Italia-Tour de France Double Ever Be Done Again?
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
It's one of the most mythical accomplishments in all of cycling: the Giro d'Italia-Tour de France double. Many have attempted it, but few have been so lucky to accomplish it in the modern era of cycling. The last to succeed, a drug-riddled Marco Pantani, did so behind unbelievable climbing in the high mountains and solid time trialing. Since Pantani, only one rider has even claimed he'd like to attempt...
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Before and After: Rasmussen and Ricco Prepare to Come Back to Cycling Sans Doping . . . Hopefully
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Michael Rasmussen was on the precipice of greatness two years ago at the Tour de France before being unceremoniously booted from the race by his own team for lying about his whereabouts on a UCI form. A year later, Italian Riccardo Ricco was found positive for EPO CERA, and was likewise booted from the Tour. Both riders will return to cycling in 2010, presumably without the assistance of drugs. Whether...
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Basso races Lombardia, memories of Chiappucci 15 years ago
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Italian Ivan Basso (Liquigas) races Giro di Lombardia Saturday, a race he first saw in the team car of cycling legend Claudio Chiappucci. "It's beautiful to start from your home, there are always many fans out there for me," Basso told Cyclingnews . "I remember the first time I saw Lombardia, I was in the team car of Carrera, the year [1994] Chiappucci second behind [Vladislav] Bobrik....
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UCI Educational Video Is Kinda Awesome
Cyclocosm (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
I’ll readily, even proudly, admit to being critical of cycling’s efforts against doping. I think the “Dopers Suck” campaign is counterproductive and simpleminded. I found Dick Pound’s sweeping proclamations about dopers and who was doping—regardless of evidence or due process—utterly inappropriate. And for better—Alessandro Petacchi—and for worse—Ivan...
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The Next Wave
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Unfortunately I saw almost nothing of the U23 race or time trial this year, thanks to generally hectic times, but if it seems unimportant, here is some information to make you (OK, me) wish we'd watched it. The U23 races have been run since 1996. [Prior to that there were amateur events of a similar nature.] Excluding last year's results -- give those kids some time -- here are some names from past...
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Elite men's road race start list
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
Italy 1 Alessandro Ballan 2 Ivan Basso 3 Marzio Bruseghin 4 Damiano Cunego 5 Stefano Garzelli 6 Luca Paolini 7 Filippo Pozzato 8 Michele Scarponi 9 Giovanni Visconti Spain 10 Carlos Barredo Llamazales 11 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 12 Oscar Freire Gomez 13 Juan Manuel Garate Cepa 14 Daniel Moreno ...
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Mendrisio: Rating the Power Teams!
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
I can't bring myself to do a mundane list of contenders; more talented people than I are typing away at such exercises everywhere, with Gavia's work at Steephill the first place to look. But I do loves me some team tactics projection, and I've never been shy about inserting facts based on what sounds good. Plus team tactics are always a bit of a curiosity at the Worlds, where trade team rivals are...
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Evans pleased with Vuelta podium place, now Worlds
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) raced to the third Grand Tour podium place of his career on the final weekend of the Vuelta a España, placing third in the time trial and jumping over Ivan Basso. He then finished alongside the other race favourites on Sunday's final stage, ending the three-week race third overall behind Alejandro Valverde. That final placing went a small way towards getting over...
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Wide Open 2009 Cycling World Championship Road Race On Tap for Mendrisio, Switzerland
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
As was the case in 2008, the 2009 world road championship will be contested on a hilly and challenging parcours , which should result in exciting racing an tense moments between most of the best one day specialists in the world. But it won't only be the one day specialists that will come to Mendrisio, Switzerland in search of the rainbow bands of world champion. A look into some of the names to watch...
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Córdoba - Puertollano: Post-Stage Thread
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
A vacation stage finished with a bunch sprint, somewhat marred by a crash within the last 3km (tho' no one looks to be too badly beat up). Results: André Greipel, HTC-Columbia William Bonnet, BBox, st. Daniele Bennati, Liquigas, st. Gerald Ciolek, Milram, st. Fracisco Jose Pacheco Torres, Contentpolis-Ampo, st. GC remains unchanged: Valverde Gesink, at 31" Sanchez, at 1.10 Ivan Basso, LIQ,...