2008 Summer Olympics
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Galiazzo finished his ranking round as the defending champion with a total of 667 points, twelve points behind leader Juan René Serrano. This gave him the 12th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Niels Dall in the first round, beating the Danish 114–97. In the second round the Olympic champion was defeated by British Alan Wills by 110–109.
Together with Ilario Di Buò and Mauro Nespoli he also took part in the team event. With his 667 score from the ranking round combined with the 670 of Di Buò and the 649 of Nespolio the Italians were in sixth position after the ranking round. In the first round they were too strong for the Canadian team 219–217. They advanced to the semi final by eliminating Malaysia 218–213. After that they reached the final by beating Ukraine 223–221. In the final they managed to get 225 points, but South Korea took the gold medal with 227 points.
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