Italy's Giovanni Visconti took a second - and his Movistar team's fourth - win of the Giro after an audacious solo attack in stage 17.
Spain's Benat Intxausti won a three-way sprint to take stage 16 of the Giro d'Italia ahead of Tanel Kangert and Przemyslaw Niemiec in Ivrea.
Hellas Verona and nine-man Sassuolo have earned promotion to Serie A, but Livorno, Empoli, Novara and Brescia go into the play-offs.
Udinese owner Giampaolo Pozzo insists boss Francesco Guidolin will not be a part of this summer’s managerial merry-go-round.
Italian Serie A winners and runners-up since the championship restarted after World War Two:
Bulgaria coach Luboslav Penev has included three uncapped players in his 25-man squad for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Denmark, the domestic
Giro d'Italia organisers balanced mountains with time trials for the 2013 race route as they try to lure Bradley Wiggins.
Javier Zanetti made his 800th appearance for Inter Milan in the Italian side's 2-0 win at Romania's Vaslui in a Europa League play-off tie.
Massimo Graziato will turn professional and join the Lampre-ISD team for 2012.
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