Ivan Basso announced Monday, July 13 in Pau, during the rest day, he was diagnosed with cancer in the left testicle , and would accordingly abandon the Tour de France.
The tumor was discovered during a medical examination conducted on the sidelines of the Tour, he announced.
“During the fifth stage, I suffered a small fall. I hurt my testicles. I felt a slight pain for a few days so I decided to consult the doctors of the Tour and my team last Sunday. They sent me to the hospital where tests revealed testicular cancer. This was informed Monday lunchtime “
” I leave the race back to Milan, get treatment in emergency “, explained the Italian 37, accompanied by Alberto Contador, his teammate and leader of Saxo Bank-Tinkoff home.
Ivan Basso has twice won the Tour of Italy (2006 and 2010). He also took the 3 th instead of the Tour de France in 2004 and the second in 2005 behind Lance Armstrong, who announced himself suffering from testicular cancer in 1996, three years before his first Tour victory.
The Italian rider had also been banned for two years (2006-2008) for his involvement in Operación Puerto, the doping scandal that had exploded in the spring of 2006, after revelations a blood transfusion system organized notably by Eufemiano Fuentes, former doctor of the Kelme cycling team.
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