Breaking News: Basso Confesses
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No Comments | May 7th, 2007 | Trackback
Can you hear that? That’s the sound of my heart breaking:
According to the Gazzetta dello Sport’s Valerio Piccioni, Ivan Basso has confessed his involvement in Operación Puerto to the antidoping prosecutor Ettore Torri of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). Today in Rome, CONI issued communiqué saying “Ivan Basso has largely admitted his responsibility relative to Operación Puerto and has provided the maximum collaboration to clarify the facts relative to his involvement.”
Basso and his lawyer Massimo Martelli met with Torri for two hours in a legal office in the centre of Rome, where the confession of the winner of the 2006 Giro d’Italia winner came of his own accord.
The head of the Italian cycling federation Renato Di Rocco applauded Basso’s decision to collaborate, telling the Gazzetta dello Sport, “Ivan has done exactly what everyone asked of Pantani, and Marco didn’t do; now, we ask in the name of cycling to not leave Ivan Basso alone.”
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