Italian Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa goes viral for cheese partnership
Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa was a muenster at the 2024 Paris Olympics, helping her team win the silver medal in Tuesday's all-around final.
Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa was a muenster at the 2024 Paris Olympics, helping her team win the silver medal in Tuesday's all-around final. But social media seems to be more intrigued by the sponsorship deal she has with cheese.
"I need the people to know that olympic silver medalist giorgia villa is sponsored by parmesan cheese and regularly posts pics of herself with giant wheels of cheese," one user wrote Wednesday on X.
"I have a new hero and it’s Giorgia Villa from Team Italy who is literally sponsored by CHEESE," another posted.
The 21-year-old announced her partnership with Parmigiano-Reggiano back in April 2021, posing in a black gymnastics leotard next to a giant wheel of cheese. "I am very happy to be part of the great @parmigianoreggiano family," she wrote in a translated post on Instagram. "Since I was a child I’ve always loved this amazing product, a symbol of excellence and Italian culture, and since today being able to collaborate with them makes me extremely proud and excited to face future challenges!"
Giorgia Villa competes in the uneven bars event of the artistic gymnastics women's team final at the Olympics in Paris, on July 30, 2024.Loic Venance / AFP - Getty ImagesThe image began resurfacing this week after Villa's Olympic win.
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