Champion in sport and life, with a giant smile Bebe Vio tells the Giffoni Film Festival His path of life, since – his words – “I was entirely with arms and legs” to when he became “partly robot”, after the amputation and 104 days of hospital at 11 years old because of the meningitis.
«At the time – he says – the only thing I could do is watching so much TV, to be precise The Cesaroni. Then when I met the actors I told him. Today I bring my coach’s daughters to the cinema to see the cartoons, but in reality they like them to make you also learn by having fun ».
The fencing champion participated in the documentary Rising Phoenix – The history of the paraolimpiadi But if you ask her if she would like to make a film about her life replies: «It would be an end in itself, there are people with a more beautiful story than mine. Better cute Italian films in which you can also joke about disability. For years I have been thinking that Checco Zalone would be perfect, who makes culture in his own way, and I dream of being able to laugh at him ».
At the Children’s Festival he remembers childhood: “The most important moment was that of artistic gymnastics. Dad told me I should have made the end of year essay. And I: “What do you win?”. He replied: “Nothing”. Then I didn’t care and I gave up. A week later I started fencing, I was five years old. I am competitive by nature, it all started with the war for the remote control with my two brothers, but extends to everything, from the burraco to those who first end the pasta ». Precise and disciplined, He admits to “remember only the races I lostwhile Dad has imprinted all medals in the mind ».
The greatest satisfaction, now, is that “on the culture of disability there has been an epochal change that allowed me to be athlete 100%, full -time, as a job and not as a hobby”.
In part it depends on the fact that no one around her has ever used a word that detested, “poor thing”: “Yes, you start from a physical difficulty but then we are all at the same level and in fact those who love me has always made fun of me irony. What is the use of: “What bad luck?”. Instead I believe so much in the passage of the smile. Of course, it is normal to be fragile, I don’t think in superheroes but when sometimes I am pulling me on others and vice versa. There is no character type to win or a recipe in life ».
Her stubbornness allowed her to open her academy, the non -profit organization Art4Sport in 2009 but it was hard: «For two years nobody arrived and we thought of closing it, because the idea of Paralympic sport was not known. I was talking to everyone about this dream until someone listened to me ».
Even the parents are very stubborn: to maturity they imposed the average of the 7th to go to the paraolimpiadi and she studied “at night (fortunately I sleep little), on planes and between one match and the other”. The teachers did not believe in sport and hindered her but the classmates chose a subject to the head to go over it with her and compensate for the days when the school for the races jumped: «If you are in love, don’t give up. I found the fencing by chance at five years even if technically you can only compete from the seven but since then I have never stopped and I would never stop stopping ».
Source: Vanity Fair
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