Gennaro Olivieri (1922 – 2 February 2009) was a Swiss ice hockey referee, better known in the English-speaking world for his role as the main official overseeing the original Jeux Sans Frontières TV shows,[1] usually working with colleague and friend Guido Pancaldi.
[2] Olivieri was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
He refereed around 200 international ice hockey matches including five world championship finals and the finals of the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics.
[3][4] His stint as referee for Jeux Sans Frontières lasted from 1965 to 1982.
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