Turin hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics and Rome hosted the 1960 Summer Olympic Games. Cortina d'Ampezzo, which will play a key role in the upcoming Olympics, was also awarded the Games in 1944.

Rafer Johnson of the United States and winner of the decathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics holds the torch aloft to light the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony for the XXIII Olympiic Games ...