BASSO AGREES TO DNA TEST

Ivan Basso
(Image credit: PAPON)

Ivan Basso has told Italian newspaper Il Giornale that he is willing to undergo DNA testing to show if the four bags of blood marked ?2? and ?Birillo? found in Madrid during Operacion Puerto are his.

Speaking for the first time since being suspended by the Discovery Channel team after the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping office reopened an investigation into his involvement in Operacion Puerto, Basso attacked the investigation calling it ?time bomb justice?.

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