Biography of Ivan Basso

Hard you become

November 26, 1977 Ivan Basso was born in Gallarate, Varese province, on November 26, 1977. He spent his childhood in Moscow, where he studied and arrives until the 4th year to become surveyor. Began racing bikes in the category Juniors at the age of 7 years, for the G.S. San Pietro, Cassano Magnago. The passion for cycling is passed on from parents, but one understands by now that little has it in his blood: a nine-year-old decides to climb the Stelvio and Aprica. Then sccala the various categories of the very young with discrete results. Newcomer, passes to G.S. Gornatese, society in which Ivan Basso militates for six years, until the second year of the Junior category. With the Gornatese wins the Gold Cup 1993 category students, and comes to be 1995 Vice World Champion in the Junior category. Then, past amateur, becomes part of the real breeding ground for budding champions that has always been the Euromobil-Zalf-Fior in Castelfranco Veneto. In Valkenburg, Holland, bass became world champion Under-23. The doors of Pro open, but Bass decides to stay amateur until may "to savor the shirt and for recognition of the Zalf". Ivan Basso debuted as professional in the tour of Italy in 2000 with the Vinavil Riso Scotti Boifava. A growing awareness and determination lead him to his first cap for the national team: the same year Road World Cup dispute in Verona. The 2001 is a year of change. Marries, and switches teams moving on to Fassa Bortolo by Ferretti. Then comes another decisive moment of sporting career: the first Tour de France. Already in the second stage enters the decisive escape with another fifteen men: low comes eighth on arrival. During the seventh stage, promotes a getaway that includes Frenchman Laurent Jalabert, but unfortunately, due to the road in perfect condition, not Low slips into a curve. Fractured a collarbone and his right hand: his Tour ends. Jalabert wins the stage and will declare that the strongest among the breakaway riders, and that he feared more was Ivan Basso. In early August Low back in the saddle ready to ward off bad luck. You begin to think the world of Lisbon (won by Freire). From technical analysis you find that Bass pedal in a wrong position: is too high and its power consumption is enormous. Aware of the thing, bass and Ferretti consult an expert in Düsseldorf, Germany, with the aim of giving the rider a more aerodynamic and profitable in terms of effectiveness. After various tests you get to develop new shorter and lower. Strong of these new technical solutions Ivan looks even more determined and loaded at the start of the 2002 season. And right in the 2002 Ivan Basso leaves an unmistakable sign of his maturation: the Tour de France is won for the fourth consecutive year by the "Martian" Lance Armstrong. Among humans who emerges is a twenty-five year old boy not yet accomplished, by the extraordinary simplicity and grit: Ivan Basso, who has so far successfully studied at the University of cycling. In 2003 Ivan travels overseas to Boston, to the prestigious and renowned MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology) to study in a wind tunnel, a new improvement in its position on the saddle for Kronos. The Tour comes in seventh. In 2004 runs the Tour de France with the Danish Csc. Lance Armstrong is increasingly an extraterrestrial: in the same year it is still him to win (sixth consecutive), but this time Ivan Basso knows the glory of the podium: takes the third place with his beloved daughter, Domitilla. The Italian is the victory of La Mongie, twelfth stage of the Tour (also comes second in the stage to Plateau de Beille, Villard-de-Lans stage). In 2005 in the tour of Italy won the 17th and the 18th stage. Then comes the Tour de France: Lance Armstrong lives and works only for this race. The Edition 2005 Edition will be his last. Ivan shows a character and exceptional condition. Against a Lance Armstrong overcomes himself, winning his seventh consecutive Tour, Ivan is superb, and eventually gets to climb with great credit on the second step of the podium. It's in the tour of Italy 2006, through long stages and tiring, and many displacements, which Ivan Basso dominated the hills and Plains. The pink jersey stays on until the triumphant arrival in Milan. At the end of June, ready to start the Tour that would have seen him highly anticipated protagonist, Ivan Basso was excluded from the race because included in the list of suspects in the investigation into doping in Spain; "In my life I've been through worse. He said Two years ago I was on the Tour, knowing that my mother was ill with cancer. This comparison is nothing. I'm stunned but I trust the people around me and follow me. I am sure that you will come out on top. " In May 2007 he confesses at the CONI anti-doping Prosecutor, he was tempted by the use of doping substances (even just the attempt is punishable), while confirming the total estrangement to the practice of doping by admitting responsibility and announcing a willingness to cooperate in the investigation. On October 24, 2008 ends the period of disqualification; two days later the Japan Cup race: here comes third, after Damiano Cunego and Giovanni Visconti. In January 2009 he participates in the stage race Vuelta of San Luis, in Argentina, finishing fifth. Also in the tour of Italy comes fifth in the centenary Edition. In late May of 2010 comes back to win triumphantly in the tour of Italy. In 2011 focuses on the Tour de France; the next year we'll try again with the tour of Italy, but finishes only fifth. In 2015 wears the Jersey of Tinkoff-Saxo and looks at the Giro as wingman of Alberto Contador (favorite and winner of the event). In July of the same year he took part in the Tour, always in support of Contador: after several investigations following a fall in the fifth stage, Ivan Basso is diagnosed with a tumor in his left testicle. It's the same rider to go public with the news, after which he decides to retire from the race to return to Italy and immediately begin treatment.
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