Heavy rain also battered the northern Emilia-Romagna region, including the areas of Forlì, Ravenna, Bologna and Ferrara, where local rivers were above alert levels in the Apennine areas.

Ivano Carrozzino presented himself this morning, but still with a dream, a desire, a project: to transform, for once in history, the Apennine Tour into the Cycling World Championship. Carrozzino had ...