Italian cyclist Giovanni Pettenella, winner of the individual sprint at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, so impressed Shigesato Itoi, the Japanese creator of the 1995 video game Mother 2 that he used his name as an obscure character who lost his contact lens in the desert. By finding and returning it to him in the second floor of the bakery in the next town you reach, he will give you a pair of dirty socks in return, which can be used in battle.