After Eurovision
After coming last in Eurovision, Miodio went on to compete in the Golden Stag Festival in Romania, as well as the Pjesma Mediterana contest in Montenegro. They also went on tour in Italy, San Marino and Moldova during the summer. In 2009 the group took part in the online section of the 59th Sanremo Festival, placing in the top 10 with their song "Evoluzione genetica". In 2010 the group took part in the Sanremo festival again, taking part in the Nuova generazione category with the song "Perdo contatto".
It was announced in May 2008 that the Winner's Tour for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 would finish in San Marino after traveling through Europe. During the tour, the Sammarinese Minister of Youth stated that San Marino had "good hopes to return" in 2009. Artists later announced their wish to represent San Marino at the contest, including Little Tony of the 2008 jury.
It had been rumoured that SMRTV would withdraw from the 2009 contest due to poor results in their debut attempt, however SMRTV rebuked that claim and confirmed its interest in the 2009 contest. However SMRTV were forced to withdraw from the 2009 contest, having earlier applied to enter, due to financial difficulties faced by SMRTV. SMRTV again declined to participate at the 2010 Contest after failing to receive sponsorship to send an entry to the contest in Oslo, Norway. This came after SMRTV had successfully selected Italian duo Paola & Chiara to represent the country. However, San Marino came back to ESC in 2011.
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