The sports girls at Vanity Fair Stories: “We are people who have fallen and got up”

Martina Caironi he was at the prosthesis center in Budrio, in the Bologna area, after the accident in which he suffered the amputation of a leg. He saw a racing prosthesis and two weeks later he did the first race. Monica Contrafatto saw Martina at the 2012 London Games from a hospital room and at the following 2016 Rio Paralympics she was on the track. They are the silver and bronze medals of the Italian 100-meter hat-trick at last summer’s Paralympics. TO Vanity Fair Stories tell about sport and commitment together with Federica Cesarini and Valentina Rodini, gold in rowing at the Tokyo Olympics, and the pilot Rachele Somaschini.

«We women put more effort into it»Explain the rowing girls,« We are students and graduates and we make it clear how you can fit everything into life ». Valentina Rodini is connected from the barracks where she lives and has a rainbow flag behind her. “My roommate put her, we are the only women in the barracks, and she really cares that these values ​​are present.”

It is the values ​​that unite all these girls. “I never thought that our victory at the Paralympics would make so much noise. A welcome like when it arrived Marcell Jacobs. We are people who have fallen and got up and have also broken down personal prejudices. It is true that heroes are created at the Olympics and heroes arrive at the Paralympics ».

Rachele Somaschini, a rally driver who suffers from cystic fibrosis, is a story of commitment. “A woman behind the wheel is seen as a UFO. There must be no difference. I wanted the toy cars and everyone gave me dolls. My father used to take me to the racetrack. When I did the first race in Monza at the age of 18, I never got out of the car. I almost had tears in my eyes. I was born in 1994 and my parents had told my parents that I might not reach adulthood ».

She also runs for those who cannot. Run for a breath is the initiative that she supports starting from a sentence of her friend Angelica: “You are all the limits you cross”. It applies to all athletes: it doesn’t matter not having a leg, suffering from a disease, being a woman, what you are counts.

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