PAU, France (VN) — Ivan Basso (Tinkoff-Saxo) announced in an emotional rest-day press conference Monday that he has testicular cancer and will withdraw from the Tour de France immediately.
Basso, a grand tour winner who was to be a key lieutenant to Alberto Contador as the Tour heads into the mountains, experienced pain in his left testicle. He was examined by the team doctor over the weekend and then underwent tests at a hospital in the rest-day town of Pau. He found out about the cancer Monday morning.
The Italian sat next to a teary-eyed Contador as he spoke to the press midday Monday.
“Unfortunately I have a bad announcement to give to you guys,” Basso said. “In stage number five I had a really small crash and on the crash I touched my testicle on the saddle.
“For a few days I felt a small pain. Yesterday [Sunday] our doctor spoke with the doctor of the Tour and we decided to go to make a special analysis to the hospital. The examination gave me bad news: I have a small cancer in the left testicle.
“So it’s easy to understand that I have to stop and go back to Italy. Our doctor is already in contact with the specialist in Italy to fix the operation as soon as possible. I can’t say to you more details because we discovered this two hours ago, so that’s all.
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Basso ganador del tour y uno de los mejores coequiperos de Alberto Contador especialmente en las etapas de montaña, experimentos dolores en el testiculo izquierdo,despues del accidente de la quinta etapa, fue examinado por los medicos el fin de semana y los examenes revelaron este lunes en la manana el cancer testicular..
Durante la conferencia de prensa en lunes Bsso explico…
«Infortunadamente tengo malas noticias para uds. muchachos…en la etapa cinco tuve pequeñas heridas en la caida y ahi comence a sentir molestias en mi testico…
Por varios dias senti dolor, el domingo nuestro doctor hablo con los medicos del Tour y justos decidieron acudir a los especialistas del hospital. los examenes revelaron esta mala noticia. tengo un pequeño cancer en mi testiculo izquierdo, dijo Basso.
Es facil entonces entender que tengo que parar y regresar a Italia. los medicos del equipos estan en contactos con los especialistas en Italia para preparar la operacion lo mas pronto posible. no puedo dar mas detalles, porque esto se descubrio hace apenas un par de horas.»
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