Hi dd,
I decided to do a bright new post for replying at your comment, so i can take all the space i need and do this blog a little more international and i will training my english too :-)
First of all, welcome back, it's a pleasure to answer to your post. Since no many people leave comments here, it's not really a big issue to answer to the few writing me :-)
Il Giro d'Italia, is a bicycle competition very popular here in Italy, in 21 days bicyclers race throughout the country touching quite all the regions.
It's an hard competition, like the French "tour de France" (you know that the first person that won the first edition of the tour de France in 1903, Maurice Garin, was from aosta valley ? Now you know it ^_^)
This year was the 89° edition (the first edition was in 1909), and the race came in my region too.
Here some info about the giro in Japanese.
here in englishThe racers were very impressing they went on the mountain road at the speed i use to go in plain, going at full speed ^_^
In Italy the most followed sport is of course football (maybe too much followed). In those past weeks a big scandal erupted between the Italian football teams, police is questioning some of the teams managers in suspect for corrupting referees.
Some phone records from mr. moggi (juventus manager) reveled by news papers and tv news show an image of the football world really not clean. A lot of other football teams seems to be involved too, and probably from next year they will be downgrade to lower class serie B or even C.
Sincerely I'm not really interested in sport, and football is something I'm not at all interested in,
I find it boring, and don't find so interesting watching 22 billionaires running and kicking a ball.
^_^
Moreover I'm not really surprised by this last scandal, a place worthy so much money can't be really clean.
But this is just my opinion.
One of the few sports that i'm interested in is Chess (the olimpic chess game just ended today in Torino and Armenia won the gold medal ) and now i can say, figure skating too, but since i'm not able to skating i practice only chess :-)
I'm glad to hear that you are finding useful youtube, is a nice evolution for Internet sharing informations between people.
I dream in a future where every person should be able to watch the tv channels and programs from every country, legally and freely, and youtube is something quite near to it.
I just hope that greedy copyright holders mentality will not prevail.
Buona domenica anche a te.
Ci sentiamo. (correct ! ^_^)