Tour de France rider quits race after being diagnosed with cancer

This is a tough story. Italian rider Ivan Basso has been forced to drop out of this year's Tour de France after being diagnosed with testicular cancer mid-race. Basso, who is a team-mate of Alberto Contador with Tinkoff-Saxo, felt a pain after a crash during stage five and underwent a scan thereafter. He announced his departure from the race today, just hours after finding out about his cancer. https://twitter.com/br_uk/status/620574459871662080 Basso was a big rival of Lance Armstrong during the 00's and also won the Giro d'Italia in 2006 and 2010. However, like Armstrong, the Italian served a ban for doping, losing two years between 2006 and 2008.