Italy At The Olympics
Italy has competed at most of the modern Olympic Games, missing only the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Italy has hosted the Games on three occasions:
- 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo
- 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
- 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino
Italian athletes have won 549 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 106 medals at the Winter Olympic Games. Italy has won a total of 235 gold medals which makes them the 5th most successful country in Olympic history, below USA, Soviet Union and Germany and Great Britain, and the 6th country with most medals (628, under the previous ones, and France).
The Italian National Olympic Committee was created in 1908 and recognized in 1913. The Italian Olympic Team has also competed in the Mediterranean Games where they have won a total of 1,786 medals which is the most in the games.
Read more about Italy At The Olympics: Medal Tables, Athletes With Most Appearances, Athletes With Most Medals, Men Gold Medalist, Women Gold Medalist
Famous quotes containing the word italy:
“I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)