Editing Giancarlo Peris (section)

==Biography==
Peris was born in [[Civitavecchia]], a port city on the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. The [[Italian National Olympic Committee]] decided that the last torchbearer of the Olympic Games would be the winner of a junior [[Cross country running]] race. Peris won and was chosen to be the last torchbearer.<ref name=beijing/> Peris was also a promising track athlete and few months before the opening of the Olympic games he competed for his country's national junior/youth team against Poland.

He later became a teacher of history and [[Italian language|Italian]] at the technical high-school "G. Baccelli" of Civitavecchia. He also coached at a small athletics club.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}