Posted on 08/01/2024 7:39:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa poses with her beloved Parmesan. Photograph: Gabriele Seghizzi - Parmigiano Reggiano
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Giorgia Villa won silver with Italy in the women’s team final. But her passion for parmesan has also gained attention
Three years ago Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa was cruelly denied her first shot at Olympic glory when she injured her ankle less than two weeks before getting on the plane for Tokyo. On Tuesday, the 21-year-old from Brescia helped Italy to their first medal in artistic gymnastics since 1928, teaming with Angela Andreoli, Alice D’Amato, Manila Esposito and Elisa Iorio to win a historic silver behind the United States.
The Italian quintet have become overnight celebrities back home, where they have been dubbed le fate d’argento (the silver fairies). But Villa’s profile has managed to transcend gymnastics in the days since her landmark medal thanks to a viral tweet which unearthed her endorsement deal with parmesan cheese.
The images speak for themselves. There’s Villa posing in her leotard next to a wheel of parmesan. There’s Villa seated proudly with three wheels of parmesan, performing an aerial cartwheel over a wheel of parmesan, doing the splits on four wheels of, yep, parmesan. There’s Villa giving a warm embrace to her “best friend” – you guessed it – a wheel of parmesan. More than 20 sponsored posts across Villa’s social media channels have featured her showing off wheels, blocks and bite-size packets of the hard cheese.
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Why aren’t our female athletes hot like her? Annoying….
I will never look at a hunk of parmesan cheese the same again.
And a side deal with Modena..
Ummm, because ours are not Italian...?
Grate!!
I hope she didn’t...cut the cheese.
I like Cheese. Do you like Cheese?
I definitely like Cheese.
I guess sexualization of the “athletes” is to be expected of such a liberal organization.
Dudes will pay extra for the cheese in image #2
Good one!
If word gets out she will become persona non graten.
Cute! Our daughter studied in Italy in high school in the Emilia-Romagna province, the home of Parmesan Reggiano. We visited her and her host family and they took us to a local cheese works for a tour. The wheels of Parmesan Reggiano were stacked floor to the high ceiling in LONG rows. I’ve never seen so much cheese aging in one place and that little factory was one of probably thousands in the province. It really is the king of cheeses! Yum.
Even though she’s into Parmesan, I’m sure she’ll still have a Muenster performance.
👍👍😀
The message to Wisconsin is,
“You’re doing it wrong.”
(Maybe they’re Alfredo change.)
Note that Parmesean made with raw grass fed milk is a good source of Vitamin K. Good for the bones and arteries! (Pretty much all US milk has been pasteurized, so the K has been destroyed.)
She’s holding a cut piece.
That’s hers most likely.......
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