Basso

Race favorite Ivan Basso is 24th, 40 seconds behind Armstrong.

Giro: Petacchi takes overall lead as USA's Vande Velde crashes 2009

Pre-race favorite Ivan Basso is 27 seconds behind Armstrong and Leipheimer with his Liquigas team placing eighth.

American team Columbia wins Giro opener, Armstrong and Astana third 2009

"I know there has been a lot of talk about the pink jersey, and I'm excited to race, but Ivan Basso is my favorite," Armstrong said.

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Basso is now in second place, 2: 46 behind overall leader Armstrong.

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Bobby Julich, riding in support of Basso, is 16th.

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2 Yet this spatialized cognition of history exists even where physical maps do not, through individuals '"sense of place" in Basso's words again, how people "know their landscapes."

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Leipheimer is fifth overall, 26 seconds behind Lovkvist, and overall race favorite Ivan Basso is 11th, 53 seconds back.

Di Luca wins 4th stage of Giro, Armstrong dropped to sixth 2009

Italians Ivan Basso and Damiano Cunego round out the top eight.

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I fly down the Carlton's stairwell in a spectacular Dennis Basso sequined-and-fur get-up, overloaded with mother's inherited diamonds, and head to Woody Allen's premiere of Sony Classics' Midnight in Paris.

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There is a long list of Italians who will also be vying for the Giro's pink jersey, he said, including former winners Ivan Basso and Danilo Di Luca and Franco Pellizotti.

Leipheimer, Armstrong take top two spots in Tour of the Gila 2009