Basso's bio passport values during Giro show a non-doped human won - this time. But he never admitted doping, did he?

Well the profile looks "normal", just as we would expect for someone riding for 3 long weeks; and there are no outliers or anomalies that have raised suspicions. So "clean" is as likely a conclusion as it can be. The only scary bit is that our current Ivan Basso is compared with the previous version who won the Giro in a canter, as if propelled by alien forces. Yet our current Basso admitted only to intent to dope, not actual doping. So why should his earlier win be considered in any sense "extraterrestrial"? There's an element of guilty assumption about his past, and be it true or not he is now considered "clean". Unlike his super-human contemporaries of the past who remain either doubted or outed.   

Basso's biological passport numbers from Giro d'Italia published

The newspaper published results from three tests, showing a drop in hematocrit and haemoglobin values – indicating a clean performance. The first control was in Amsterdam, two days before the race started (43% hematocrit, 13.9g/dl haemoglobin), the second control was on the second rest day, between the stage to Monte Zoncolan and Plan de Coronas (40.9, 13.3) and the final control was in Verona on the morning of the last stage (38.7, 12.9).

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Basso, who was excluded from the 2006 Tour, admitted that his name was among the clients (though not an active one, he said) of the Operación Puerto blood-doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes