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Cycling-Italian Basso quits Tour due to testicular cancer

PAU, France, July 13 (Reuters) - Former Giro d'Italia winner Ivan Basso is withdrawing from the Tour de France after revealing he has testicular cancer on Monday. "We discover this two hours ago, I have to stop," the 37-year-old Italian told a news conference on the first rest day of this year's Tour. (Reporting by Julien Pretot, editing by Ed Osmond)