The mountains of Piedmont featured at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics provide a unique backdrop for winter sports. But they also provide peace and quiet for amateurs to have fun, space for beginners, and great cultural and gastronomic traditions.
Piedmont features 53 ski resorts, 1,300 kilometres of runs, and over 300 installations comprising aerial tramways, cableways, [...]

Milan Vice-President Adriano Galliani has reiterated the stance he took after yesterday’s game and says that the club will not be appealing to UEFA over the incident involving Dida.
The Brazilian keeper was struck by a Celtic fan who had run onto the pitch to celebrate his team’s last minute winner. Although contact seemed minimal Dida [...]

Italy captain Marco Bortolami has been ruled out of Saturday’s winner-takes-all Pool C clash with Scotland in St Etienne because of injury.
The Gloucester lock has not trained this week because of hamstring and neck problems, and he has failed to recover in time to make coach Pierre Berbizier’s line-up.
Bortolami is replaced by the fit-again Santiago [...]

Palermo president Maurizio ‘Zampa’ Zamparini seems resigned to losing star talent Amauri in the summer transfer window.
The Brazilian striker arrived in Sicily at the start of last season, a marvellous debut campaign being cut short by injury, but his recent return to form has seen eyebrows raised across Italy and beyond.
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