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Italy's Diego Ulissi celebrates winning the second stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Alcamo to Agrigento, in Sicily, southern Italy, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020. (Gian Mattia D'Alberto/LaPresse via AP)

Ulissi outsprints Sagan alongside Sicily’s Greek temples

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List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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FILE - In this July 18, 2019 file photo, the pack rides during the twelfth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 209,5 kilometers (130 miles) with start in Toulouse and finish in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France. This year's Tour de France will now start on Aug. 29 in Nice and finish on Sept. 20 in Paris and will be followed by cycling's other two major races. The Tour could not start as scheduled on June 27 because of restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/ Christophe Ena, File)

Giro and Vuelta to overlap in revised UCI cycling calendar

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

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A view of the empty stadium during the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Genoa at the San Siro stadium, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, March 8, 2020. Serie A played on Sunday despite calls from Italy’s sports minister and players’ association president to suspend the games in Italy’s top soccer division. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Juventus beats Inter 2-0 in crucial match in empty stadium

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, July 28, 2019 file photo, Colombia's Egan Bernal, left, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, center, races on the Champs Elysees during the Tour de France cycling race in Paris. The team of reigning Tour de France champion Egan Bernal has withdrawn from all races over the next three weeks amid the spread of the new virus outbreak and following the death of one of its sports directors. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Skiing finals, Italian cycling races canceled due to virus

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided released on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, by the North Korean government, workers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant on a bus as a precaution against the new coronavirus at a parking lot in Sinuiju, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

The Latest: Australia bans travel from S Korea over virus

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FILE - The seats are empty as a precaution against the coronavirus at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, during the Europa League round of 32 second leg soccer match between Inter Milan and Ludogorets on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (Emilio Andreoli, UEFA via AP, File)

Italy bans fans from attending sporting events for one month due to coronavirus

By Daniella Matar - Associated Press

FILE - The seats are empty as a precaution against the coronavirus at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, during the Europa League round of 32 second leg soccer match between Inter Milan and Ludogorets on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (Emilio Andreoli, UEFA via AP, File)

Italian sport to take place without fans until April 3

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

A woman jogs outside San Siro stadium where a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Genoa was supposed to take place but was instead postponed to May 13, 2020, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, March 1, 2020. In Lombardy, the hardest-hit region by the spread of the Coronavirus, schools and universities were ordered to stay closed, and sporting events were canceled.(Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Serie A, soccer clubs clash in Italy amid coronavirus chaos

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

Stewards stand at a gate of the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Ludogorets is playing Italian club Inter Milan in a Europa League soccer match on Thursday that is scheduled to go ahead in an empty stadium due to the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

What if they played the games and nobody came?

By Jim Litke - Associated Press

Inter Milan's head coach Antonio Conte sits on the bench before an Europa League, round of 32, first leg, soccer match between PFC Ludogorets Razgrad and Inter Milan at Huvepharma Arena in Razgrad, Bulgaria, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Serie A announces Juventus-Inter will be played without fans

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Renzi challenge threatens stability of Italian government

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Former Italian Prime Minister and founder of the Italia Viva (Italy alive) party Matteo Renzi speaks at a meeting in Florence, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. (Claudio Giovannini/ANSA via AP)

Italian ex-premier Renzi seeks to create new center-right

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Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini receives media attention at the end of a political rally as part of his 'Italian summer tour', in Taormina, Southern Italy, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. Italy on Friday edged closer to holding an election as early as this fall that could move the country farther to the right, with anti-migrant Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini already unofficially campaigning for the premiership and declaring it makes “no sense” to keep alive the feuding populist coalition government. (Carmelo imbesi/ANSA via AP)

Matteo Salvini, Northern League head, has eyes on prime minister of Italy

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sunday, July 5, 2015 file photo, an Alitalia plane takes off from Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci international airport. The Italian government is hoping the Alitalia airline will turn a new page after four private investors expressed an interest in joining the state railway, the Italian treasury and Delta Air Lines in trying once again to relaunch the struggling flagship carrier. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)

Atlantia chosen to help relaunch Italy’s Alitalia airline

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, center, Italy's Under Secretary of State Giancarlo Giorgetti, left, Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) president Giovanni Malago, second left, the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala, second right, and Italy's Lombardy region President Attilio Fontana, right, before a meeting at the Olympic Museum, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Sunday, June 23, 2019. The host city of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games will be decided in Lausanne on Monday. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

Italy’s Milan-Cortina bid wins vote to host 2026 Winter Olympics

By Graham Dunbar and Daniella Matar - Associated Press

Italy: Bridge failure that killed 43 was ‘absurd,’ avoidable

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A woman pulls a suitcase after being accompanied by firefighters to get her belongings from her home, in Genoa, Italy, Thursday Aug. 16, 2018. Authorities worried about the stability of remaining large sections of a partially collapsed bridge evacuated about 630 people from nearby apartments, some practically in the shadow of the elevated highway. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

The Latest: Bridge collapse death toll lowered by 1 to 38

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A view of the Morandi highway bridge that collapsed in Genoa, northern Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. A large section of the bridge collapsed over an industrial area in the Italian city of Genova during a sudden and violent storm, leaving vehicles crushed in rubble below. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

The Latest: Survivors describe Italy bridge collapse

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