Ivan Basso
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"Grand Tour (cycling)/Grand Tours"

:"Tour de France"

::Young rider classification in the Tour de France/Young rider classification (2002 Tour de France/2002)

::1 individual stage (2004 Tour de France/2004)

:"Giro d'Italia"

::"General classification in the Giro d'Italia/General classification" (2006 Giro d'Italia/2006, 2010 Giro d'Italia/2010)

::6 individual stages (2005 Giro d'Italia/2005, 2006 Giro d'Italia/2006, 2010 Giro d'Italia/2010) + 2 Team time trial/TTT (2006 Giro d'Italia/2006, 2010 Giro d'Italia/2010)

"Stage races"

:Danmark Rundt (2005 Danmark Rundt/2005)

:Critérium International (2006)

:Giro del Trentino (2009)

"One-day races and Classics"

:Giro dell'Emilia (2004)

:Japan Cup (cycling)/Japan Cup (2012)

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I am very happy that we are continuing our brilliant collaboration with Cervlo. It has been a pleasure being part of the developent of their bikes. I've been constantly impressed with their technology and it means a lot to me that we have best material available. Cervlo's bikes give us a competitive edge and I know that I can win the biggest races on these bikes.

[And Lance is still The Man.] To be honest, ... I saw no signs of weakness in Lance. He's very strong and it's so hard to get away from him.

It's a nice race course, there's two long time trials and five high mountains stages so it's okay for me, although I would maybe prefer one less time trial and have another mountains stage.

I expect to feel good for the race tomorrow, but it's not going to be easy for me, ... It's been a long season with the Giro and the Tour de France.

Armstrong was too strong.

Armstrong is the strongest man on this Tour. I think he's still got gas in his tank.