ROME (AP) — Rome’s mayor and a chorus of others have denounced the defacing of a street-art celebration of Paola Egonu, who helped lead Italy to its first-ever Olympic gold medal in women's volleyball ...

Marta Menegatti is a four-time Olympian from Italy. In her four matches in Paris, she picked up 68 points, and 63 attack points. In the Tokyo Olympics, she became the first athlete to represent Italy ...

A mural by Italian street artist Laika was intended to celebrate not only Egonu’s return to the team, which beat the United States to win a gold medal in women’s volleyball, but also her being named ...

The U.S. women's volleyball team will settle for silver at the Paris Olympics after dropping Sunday's gold-medal final to Italy in straight sets. Italy opened the match on a 6-1 run and never looked ...

The Nebraska volleyball team added Virginia Adriano to its roster for the 2025 season. Adriano is a 6-foot-5-inch opposite hitter from Turin, Italy. She most recently played for Bergamo in Serie A1, ...

Rome (CNN) — Two years after Italian volleyball player Paola Egonu stepped down from the national volleyball team after racial abuse on social media became too distracting, she has become the target ...

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