Like any good eating city, Sydney has its Italian stars.

Tomba charged to the lead after the first heat, and the Italian star held off a challenge from Thomas Sykora of Austria.

In the fourth round, however, the Milner team fell to Jacobs and his sixth-seeded group, which includes two Italian stars.

My mum's Sicilian and at home she listened to the big Italian stars.

But the second run proved slightly less favorable to the Italian star.

Mario Cipollini, the Italian star, did not start, choosing instead to go home and continue training in the sun for his major goal.

He came into these Games with more publicity than Alberto Tomba, the Italian star.

"It's pretty normal," said the Italian star, Roberto Baggio, the world player of the year in 1993.

At the start a cheating scandal cast a shadow over some Italian stars.