The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956, was a multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 26 January to 5 February 1956.
Atletico Roma Football Club was an Italian football club based in Rome, Italy. The club was founded as Nuova Tor Sapienza Calcio, which was renamed to Cisco Tor Sapienza in 1998. Under several merger, the club was subsequent known as A.S. Cisco Collatino, A.S. Cisco Calcio Roma and A.S. Cisco Lodigiani (2004–05). The club also played in Serie C from 2005 to 2011. In 2010–11 season the club was known as Atletico Roma F.C.. Several clubs were founded as namesakes to homage either Atletico Roma or Cisco Collatino after 2010 and 2011, the year of disestablishment of the original Cisco Roma and Atletico Roma respectively.
Sport in Italy has a long tradition. In several sports, both individual and team, Italy has good representation and many successes. The most popular sport in Italy is football. Italy's national football team is one of the world's most successful teams with four FIFA World Cup victories. Italian clubs have won 48 major European trophies, making Italy the second most successful country in European football. Italy's top-flight club football league is named Serie A and is followed by millions of fans around the world.
The Italian National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in Italy. The tournament started in 1977.
Angelo Scalzone was an Italian sport shooter who won a gold medal in trap shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He died of liver cancer in France, aged 56.
Enrico Porro was an Italian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion. He was the first gold medal at the Olympic Games of the Italian military sports body Gruppo Sportivo della Marina Militare.
The 2011–12 Italian football match-fixing scandal emerged on 1 June 2011 after a number of football-related figures were arrested or placed under official scrutiny by Italian police for alleged match-fixing. The list included well-known figures like former Italian international footballer Giuseppe Signori, as well as former Serie A players Mauro Bressan, Stefano Bettarini and Cristiano Doni. The group was accused of having fixed a wide range of Serie B, Lega Pro Prima Divisione and Lega Pro Seconda Divisione games.
Associazione Sportiva Pro Piacenza 1919 S.r.l. or simply Pro Piacenza was an Italian association football club, based in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna. The club played in Serie C, the third tier of Italian football, until 18 February 2019 when they were excluded from the division.
The Gruppi Sportivi Fiamme Gialle is the sport section of the Italian police force, Guardia di Finanza.
Massimo Fabbrizi is an Italian professional target shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 2012 Summer Olympics where he won the silver medal.
Andreea Ştefănescu is a Romanian-born Italian rhythmic gymnast.
The Automobile Club d'Italia is a not-for-profit statutory corporation of the Italian Republic. The club originated through the efforts of Count Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia as the "Automobile Club of Turin" founded in Turin on 6 December 1898. It first became a national association in 1905 when it joined together with other local automotive clubs. In 1927 the corporate body was formed by royal decree, with the task of promoting and regulating the car sector and to represent car owners' interests in the country.
Società Sportiva Dilettantistica a r.l. Eretum Monterotondo Calcio , known as just Eretum Monterotondo is an Italian football club based in Monterotondo, in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. Eretum Monterotondo was found in 2016 by the merger of A.S.D. Monterotondo Calcio and A.S.D. Eretum. A.S.D. Monterotondo Calcio itself, was founded in 2013 by the merger of A.S.D. Città di Marino Calcio and A.S.D. Atletico Monterotondo. However, the team considered itself as the successor of Polisportiva Monterotondo Calcio, that originally founded in 1935. That team, known as Polisportiva Monterotondo Lupa in 2013, was relocated to Maccarese to claim as the successor of another team, A.S. Giada Maccarese.
The Italian Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for association football players that have had a significant impact on Italian football.
Enrico Garozzo is an Italian right-handed épée fencer and 2016 Olympic silver medalist.
Paolo Tassetto is an Italian weightlifting coach, Physical Training Master of the Italian Weightlifting Federation, strength and conditioning expert. He is an Honoured Master in Olympic weightlifting.
The Centro Universitario Sportivo Italiano (CUSI), is an association that promotes sports activity at the university level, and is recognized by the Italian National Olympic Committee.
The Italy national rowing team represents Italy in International rowing competitions such as Olympic Games, World Rowing Championships or European Rowing Championships.
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