Bicycle racing: Basso doping ban considered next week (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

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ROME The Italian Cycling Federation will meet next Friday to decide the length of Ivan Basso's ban for involvement in the Spanish blood-doping investigation. The Italian Olympic Committee's doping prosecutors recommended last month that the 2006 Giro d'Italia champion be banned for 21 months. The 29-year-old Basso is accused of using or attempting to use a banned substance or method, and ...

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