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An easy jump, tried a thousand times in training, something that goes wrong: an unbearable pain, the body that seems to end at the navel, the terror in the father's eyes. At just 16, Giulia Ghiretti went from preparing for the trampoline World Cup to a neurosurgery department. Her verdict is cruel: she will no longer be able to jump, or even walk. But nothing can stop Giulia, who discovers swimming, her new sport. Thus began her extraordinary adventure that led her to win 23 international medals between the Paralympics, World and European Championships and to break record after record, thanks to the strength of her positivity and tenacity. In this book Giulia tells her story of exceptional normality: a family united more than ever, prejudices and misunderstandings, friends, the joy for an unexpected medal and the anger for a victory that escaped at the last minute. The awareness that serenity is within us and must be cultivated with a smile day after day, no matter what life throws at us.
20 x 13 cms, softback, 205 pages.
2023
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