LONDON — Giorgia Villa is likely to be essentially the most “grateful” athlete on the face of the planet.And no, it is not simply because the newly minted Italian silver medalist helped Team Italy rating their first Olympic group medal in gymnastics since 1928. Villa is sponsored by cheese.Having additionally received the bronze on the 2019 World Championships in addition to being on gold-winning groups on the 2022 Mediterranean Games and the 2022 European Championships, she started being sponsored by Parmagiano Reggiano in 2021 and accomplished the deal in 2022, a two-year period the place she matured as an athlete to turn out to be one of the very best gymnasts on this planet.”A new face is added, as a testimonial, to the prestigious team of Parmigiano Reggiano: The young gymnast Giorgia Villa, 2018 champion of the Youth Games and one of the most promising athletes in her specialty at an international level,” Impresa e Sport, an Italian advertising company mentioned in 2021 once they first introduced the sponsorship deal.”The very young athlete, spearhead of the national rhythmic gymnastics team, has in fact become the brand’s new ambassador, with all the enthusiasm and freshness of her splendid age. Tenacious, determined, smiling, Giorgia proudly underlined this new role as well as once again confirming how the combination of Parmigiano Reggiano and the world of sport is indissoluble in terms of authenticity, quality and energetic value, both in sporting activity and in correct nutrition,” the assertion learn.Italy’s Giorgia Villa competes within the uneven bars occasion of the creative gymnastics ladies’s group closing during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on the Bercy Arena in Paris, on July 30, 2024.Loic Venance/AFP by way of Getty PicturesVilla first began in gymnastics on the age of 3 when her mom signed her up for gymnastics classes as a consequence of her high vitality and exercise degree.”I had just started nursery school, but I immediately understood that I would love that sport with all my being,” mentioned Villa. “I left school and, still wearing my pink apron, I couldn’t wait to enter that gym and jump and run feeling free and happy.”Now 21, Villa has been coaching on the Italian Gymnastics Federation’s International Academy of Brescia, Italy, since she was simply 11 years outdated.”Every single day has been a personal achievement. There have been many sacrifices that I have had to face, but I have received a lot of satisfaction which time after time has given me the energy needed to face future challenges that lay ahead of me,” mentioned Villa in an interview in 2022. “I am a person who loves to show what she can do, and then achieving important results is incomparable to any sacrifice.””I love gymnastics so much because it allows me to always be in motion,” Villa continued. “It is also a wonderful method to let off steam and release all the energy I have in my body, to always be in a group and in company even if gymnastics is fundamentally still an individual sport. I also love the fact that it pushes me to try to overcome my limits by improving every single skill.”Giorgia Villa is likely to be essentially the most “grateful” athlete on the face of the planet. And no, it isn’t simply because the newly minted Italian silver medalist helped Team Italy rating their first Olympic group medal in gymnastics since 1928. Villa is sponsored by cheese.Impresa e SportQuick ahead to 2024 and Villa may be seen throughout social media taking photos with the large wheels of cheese which can be produced completely within the provinces of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna to the west of the Reno River, and Mantua to the east of the Po River, in response to the cheesemaker.”Since I was a child I have always loved this fantastic product, a symbol of Italian excellence and culture, and from today being able to collaborate with them makes me extremely proud and charged to face future challenges,” Villa mentioned on the time of her sponsorship announcement.While the cheese sponsorship is likely to be a bonus, Villa has at all times been trustworthy about her objectives throughout the sport of gymnastics and, when requested whether or not the Olympic Games have been at all times her goal and if she thought of quitting during troublesome moments in her profession, Villa was firm in her opinion and did not crumble.”The biggest objective is the Olympics, for me and I think all of us,” she mentioned. “This [medal] paid [us] back for the injuries and hard moments that we lived over the years.”