San Marino first entered Olympic competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The nation did not enter a Winter Olympic Games until Innsbruck in 1976. Excepting the 1980 and 1998 Winter Olympics, San Marino has participated in every edition of the Winter Olympics since, making Turin the nation's seventh Winter Olympics appearance. The Sammarinesi delegation consisted of a single alpine skier, Marino Cardelli. Cardelli would go on to also be the only Sanmarinesi competitor four years later in Vancouver. Cardelli was selected as the flag bearer for both the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony.