Basso back to Tour de France four years after Strasbourg

Ivan Basso, 2010 Giro d'Italia winner

Ivan Basso is back at the Tour de France four years after he left it in disgrace, caught up in the Operación Puerto doping investigation.

"The blackest moment of my life," Basso told French sports paper L'Equipe.

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