Giorgio Di Centa is an Italian former cross-country skier who won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, including the individual 50 km freestyle race. He is the younger brother of Olympic gold medalist, cross-country skier Manuela Di Centa.
Di Centa at the 2007 Tour de Ski in Prague.
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February in Turin, Italy. This marked the second time Italy had hosted the Winter Olympics, the first being in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo; Italy had also hosted the Summer Olympics in 1960 in Rome.
"Passion lives here", the Turin 2006 motto written by the Italian calligrapher Francesca Biasetton [it]
Victory ceremony at Medals Plaza
2006 Olympics logo on display in the Carlo Felice Square, in Turin
Torino's Olympic Oval hosting the 2009 European Athletics Indoor