Emilia Romagna floods: Valentino Rossi celebration in Tavullia cancelled due to terrible weather

An event where Valentino Rossi was set to be given the keys to his home city has been postponed due to extreme weather.
Valentino Rossi, MotoGP, Grand Prix of the Americas, 1 October
Valentino Rossi, MotoGP, Grand Prix of the Americas, 1 October

Floods in the north of Italy have killed eight people🍃, caused sev🐬eral more to go missing, and 5,000 to be evacuated from their homes.

The weather has also resulted in the cancellation of this weekend’s F1 Emilia Ro෴magna Grand Prix.

As a ma꧟rk of respect to the victims of the flood, Rossi’s celebration will no longer take pl🍌ace on Friday.

The event, call🃏ed “TavulliaVale”, was a ceremony in the town square in honour of the MotoGP legend.

Tavullia is in the region 🃏of Marche, which borders the stricken Emilia Romagꦅna.

Marche has also been hit with bad weather, though nothing li🐠ke the disaster being felt this week by its neighbouring region.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade ⛦covering everything from American sports, to football, 🥃to F1.

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