Rowing: Ex-world champion Filippo Mondelli dies from cancer aged 26

MILAN (AFP) – Former world rowing champion Filippo Mondelli, who helped Italy qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, has died aged 26 from bone cancer, the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) announced on Thursday (April 29). Mondelli won the world quadruple sculls title in 2018 and was also a two-time European champion, in double sculls in 2017,... » read more