Looking forward to next year,
what is it
that you look forward
to the most
about competing here
next year?
You know,
I used to come to Paris
several times,
and this is
the first time that I start
seeing things
for the Paralympics.
So you can
start seeing buildings,
you can start seeing gyms and...
Oh, I don't know,
like big billboards
about the Paralympics
and the Olympics.
So you can really feel
that the society is smelling
the smell of the Paralympics.
It’s cool.
What has changed in
Bebe from Rio to Tokyo
and now for Paris?
In Rio de Janeiro, it was my first time.
So everything was wow.
Everything was like,
Oh God, this is
the best paper
I’ve ever seen before.
Oh, look at this
grass, it is amazing.
Is the best grass
I’ve ever seen before.
So everything was like a big
wow because
it was the first time
that I was living my dream.
Exactly.
I was there,
I got the chance
to be to be part of my dream.
I was 19 years old,
so I was kind of younger.
And then Tokyo
was a completely
different thing,
of course.
We were
out from a pandemic disaster...
So we were there,
as an Italian,
we felt we needed
to be there to represent
the entire country,
and we were there to push
our society,
to say,
okay, guys,
we are out of this situation,
we can try to reborn again,
we can be happy again
in some way.
And here we are
to demonstrate
that we are
one big team together
and we are fighting together.
And so we are
looking forward to,
I don't know, being here,
breathing this,
probably
because I'm much older
from the first one,
I'm living this situation
in a completely
different way.
I just want to be trained
for that.
Our national team,
the Italian National team
this year has much
a new younger generation.
So it's so cool
to see all these
new guys coming.
I think I am
part of the one.
I was the one years ago
asking to the older
how is to be part of them.
So now we're telling them
what is to be part of that.
It's cool.
You know
what they are going to live.
What do you tell them?
Because I mean,
you share that with them,
but also with the people
that are not there.
What would you say
to the young people
trying to make
their Paralympic
debut next year here?
Oh, you know,
most of the time
you have to live it without...
You can
listen to
thousands of stories,
but once you live it,
you are
you're going to see it
from a completely
different side.
And my favorite place in
the Paralympics
is the bigger
emotion on
the day before,
when you can go to the
to the place
in which
you are going to compete.
You are there
and you know that the day after
you are going to be there.
So it's like,
I can start crying right now...
Because, you know,
the day of the competition is such,
it's one day.
And so in that day,
you have to
demonstrate everything
you got.
It’s a question
of segment or
fraction of seconds.
So you don't have to think,
you just have to be there
and live it,
and fight for what you want.
How would you describe
that moment
of being on the podium?
I mean,
being gold
or silver or bronze
because you won them all.
So how is the feeling?
I think that
you can really understand
how is the feeling
of being on the podium
when you see the picture
and you see that
no one in that picture,
is looking to the camera,
but just looking
to all that people
that help you to be there.
And so when you are they,
you just want to
go down from the podium,
and go to celebrate with them.
The Italian national anthem
is my favorite song.
So when I sing that song,
I really
feel to be part of something
much bigger than me.
How has the Games
changed your life?
Oh, you know,
the difficult part
is that, you know,
you perfectly know that
that day
could be
the best day of your life
or the day
that you want to delete
from the calendar.
But really what has changed is,
you finally
get the opportunity to say
to all these people
who worked with you
from the day before until that day
that all the things
that day did...
It worked.
And what's it dream for next
year here?
Is it possible
to get a medal again?
We hope so.
If not, we don't want to come.
You know, it's impossible
that you want go to the Paralympics
just to say
okay, I participate in it.
It's impossible.
Don’t believe
in this kind of people.
They are liers.
Everyone wants to come
and just say, okay,
I want win this things.
If not, you know,
you don't want to go there.
Can you invite people to
to come watch you and support
the athletes next year
and to visit Paris
and watch all the Para sport here?
Guys, of course,
have to come here.
You have to cheers with us.
You have to cheers
in particular
for Italian team, please.
Yeah, just for us,
but also
the rest of the country
is amazing.
So just come and
enjoy the amazing
world of the Paralympic sport.