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Winner of the 2015 Paralympic Foil World Championships, double gold at the 2014 European Championships, both individual and team, and former Italian champion in the speciality.

Beatrice Maria 'Bebe' Vio, born a 'scout' as she describes herself, is also the author of a successful book published by Rizzoli, 'Mi hanno regalato un sogno', with a preface by a friend of hers, Lorenzo Cherubini aka Jovanotti, who likes to call her 'pazzesca Bebe'.She has been fencing since the young age of six, interrupted at the end of 2008 when she was struck down - at only 11 years old - by fulminating meningitis that caused a serious blood infection, resulting in the amputation of her forearms and legs. She spent three and a half months in hospital for hospitalisation, then immediately

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