1.   Casagrande was sentenced to a six-month suspension by his Italian federation last month, a few weeks after he won the esteemed San Sebastian Classic.

2.   Franco Baresi, the resilient defender who played Sunday three weeks after knee surgery, slumped into the arms of Antonio Mattarese, the head of the Italian federation.

3.   On the eve of the World Championships, the Italian athletic federation decided not to submit the record for ratification.

4.   The Italian federation studied videotapes of the incident and passed them on to the International Amateur Athletic Federation.

5.   The Italian federation filed an official protest.

6.   Though May gave her a congratulatory kiss, the Italian federation was soon filing a protest that the International Amateur Athletic Federation rejected shortly before midnight.

7.   But the Italian federation decided not to seek ratification of the mark because of deceit the Cuban jumper was not involved in.

8.   But the Italian federation declined to submit the jump for ratification on grounds that a man had interfered with the wind guage.

9.   But the Italian federation does not want to see the record become official because someone purposely shielded the wind meter.

10.   Even the Italian federation has recommended that it not be ratified, claiming the man influenced the reading on the wind gauge.