BASSO GETS OK TO RIDE 2007 TOUR

Basso

Ivan Basso has been given the green light to ride the 2007 Tour de France by retiring race director Jean Marie Leblanc.

Basso missed this year?s race because he was implicated in ?Operacion Puerto? but in an interview in the December edition of Italian cycling magazine Bicisport, Leblanc made it clear that he would be happy to see Basso at the start in London on July 7. Leblanc put pressure on the teams to send the riders home the day before this year?s Tour but has clearly changed his mind about the new Discovery Channel leader.

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