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ROME (AP) _ Rome prosecutors formally opened a criminal investigation into allegations of doping against Ivan Basso on Thursday, three days after the Giro d'Italia champion admitted involvement in the Spanish doping scandal. Basso is being investigated for the alleged use of a banned substance or method, the ANSA and Apcom agencies said. Doping is a criminal offence in Italy and carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail ...

ROME (AP) _ Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso faces doping allegations after the Italian Olympic Committee reopened its investigation into the Spanish doping scandal. CONI summoned Basso on Tuesday to a doping hearing May 2 on charges of having used or attempted to use a banned substance or method. The 29-year-old Italian was one of 50 riders implicated in last year's Operation Puerto, which led to his exclusion from the ...

Two weeks after being cleared of doping allegations, Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso appears set to join the Discovery Channel cycling team. ``It's done,'' Lance Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France champion and former Discovery leader, was quoted in Wednesday's Gazzetta Dello Sport. ``We've reached an agreement.'' The 28-year-old Basso signed a three-year deal worth about US$6 million, according to the report. The deal will be formally announced later Wednesday ...

Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso and his Danish CSC team ended their contract by mutual agreement Wednesday. ``After all that has happened, especially this summer, Team CSC and Ivan Basso have agreed to part ways,'' CSC manager Bjarne Riis manager said in a statement. ``It has been a very difficult decision, but both parties agree it is time to move on.'' Basso was excluded from this year's Tour de France ...

Giro d'Italia winner Ivan Basso, looking to race again after the Italian Olympic Committee recommended that doping allegations against him be dropped, says he has been courted by Lance Armstrong's former team, Discovery Channel. ``They made me a concrete proposal but I am open to other solutions,'' the Italian rider said in an interview published Monday by French sports newspaper L'Equipe. Basso gave no details. Discovery has been looking for ...

Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso is ready to race again after the Italian Olympic Committee recommended that doping allegations against him be dropped. ``Now my goal is to win races again,'' Basso said in sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport on Friday, a day after the Olympic body's anti-doping commission said it would ask the Italian Cycling Federation to close the case. ``I always continued to train with the aim of ...

The Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping commission recommended Thursday that doping allegations against Giro d'Italia cycling champion Ivan Basso be dropped. The committee said it will make the recommendation to the disciplinary body of the Italian Cycling Federation, which can decide whether to try the rider or dismiss the case. Basso was one of nine riders _ including 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich _ excluded from this year's Tour ...

Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso asked the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping commission Friday to drop an inquiry into allegations he used banned substances. The committee said it needs more time to evaluate his case, which stems from a Spanish doping investigation that forced Basso and eight other riders to withdraw from the Tour de France in July. Basso has denied the allegations. ``It's been four months that I've been in ...

A hearing in the doping case of Giro d'Italia cycling champion Ivan Basso has been postponed until the end of the month. Basso, who was excluded from the Tour de France after being implicated in a Spanish doping investigation, denied using banned substances in a first appearance before Italian anti-doping authorities late last month. That hearing was adjourned to Sept. 12. The Italian Olympic Committee said ...

ROME (AP) _ Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso, who was excluded from the Tour de France after being implicated in a Spanish doping investigation, denied using banned substances Tuesday in his first appearance before Italian anti-doping authorities. ``It is clear that I have never engaged in doping,'' Basso said at the end of a two-hour hearing before a panel of the Italian Olympic Committee. The hearing ...