A rough patch for Ivan Basso who, much to his dismay, had to... pull into the pits. Yesterday afternoon, in fact, the manager of Polti VisitMalta was admitted to the Iseni Sanità Group clinic in Lonate Pozzolo, in the province of Varese, and in the evening he underwent an appendectomy procedure that turned out to be somewhat more complicated than expected.

«I want to thank the team led by Dr. Franco Crespi and Dr. Carlo Zanoni, Alessandro Geddo and the entire Iseni Sanità Group: their timely and professional intervention allowed me to... start smiling again within hours and to already think about getting back to work» Basso told tuttobiciweb.