GREAT STORY

2004 Tour of Georgia.

Cipollini was entertaining some "females" note, the plural. He was in a hotel, ready to go upstaits and show his virilty and his southern "re lione" .

Anyhow, some fan just happens to have a Credit Lyonnais stuffed lyon, and he takes a texta marker up to Cipo to sign it. Now Credit Lyonnais is one of the major sponsors of the Tour de France and these stuffed teddybear lyons are only given out to stage winners, or overall winners of classifications, or the GC podium.

Now Cipo was refused an invite to the tour for 3 (or 4) years straight and he was a little pissed with Jean Marie Leblanc to say the least. And he was conducting a media polemic with JML and Amaury Sporting Organisation, the head of the tour.

Cipo takes the fan's doll and the marker pen and draws a set of caricatured genitals on the Credit Lyonnais lyon.
Have not confirmed if he added his signature, or like Prince, and "love symbol" and the man formerly known as Prince, Cipo just has as his signature a set of genitals. Hmmm, I doubt they are flaccid