In Italy, where doping is a criminal offence, police raided the lodgings of the Austrian biathlon team during the Turin Winter Olympics in 2006.

BBC: Anti-doping plans worry athletes

He was one of the top players on the UK sledge hockey team that played in Turin at the Winter Paralympics Games in 2006.

BBC: Paralympic runner Richard Whitehead aims for 200m gold

Tuesday marks Van Commenee's selection debut when he picks his team for the European Indoors at Turin.

BBC: Banishing the Beijing demons

The oil cash of the Moratti family went into Inter Milan, the Lauros' ships built up the main Neapolitan team, and the Agnellis' Fiat fortune put pep into Juventus in Turin.

ECONOMIST: The politics of Italian football

Lazio, a team based in Rome, is owned by entrepreneur Claudio Lotito, while Juventus (in Turin) is controlled by the Agnelli family, the principal shareholders of the Fiat car company.

BBC: Silvio Berlusconi at 75: A birthday quiz

England face USA on 28 May and, with Capello reportedly having been asked to appear before Turin prosecutors investigating tax evasion allegations the day before, questions were raised as to his availability for the team's preparations less than 48 hours before kick off.

BBC: Capello free for USA preparation