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Cecilia Camellini: two Paralympic golds with world records in 50m (30 “94) and 100m freestyle (1’07″ 29) blind. A bronze in the 100 back (1’19 “91), with a fighting spirit demonstrated in the final race learned  since the beginning from Ettore Pacini, her first coach and discoverer. “I forwarded the evil attitude – said the president of the company Asd Tricolore in Reggio Emilia -. In the race she is like a boxer in the ring as the other swimmers are enemies. ”
How to explain swimming to whom has never been able to see with her own eyes? “I watched on TV the technical movements of the champions and I tried to explain through a logical explanation – he adds -. It was not hard for me since I’m visually impaired and I worked a lot with the blind. ” This relation began in September 2003, when Cecilia was just 11 and a half years. Differences in training by the able-bodied? “No, she swims every morning for two hours, then makes four double workouts in the afternoon and four hours in the gym a week. In total, she trains for about thirty hours. ” A load that will be reduced after London: “She graduated last year at high school Muratori of Modena with honors and this year she enrolled in Psychology at the University of Cesena. So will give priority to the study for the next three years, then go back to load in view of Rio de Janeiro. ”
(From: http://www3.lastampa.it/sport/sezioni/articolo/lstp/467197/)

“I started when I was very young. Swam my brother and I wanted to try it too: I have not stopped. With swimming I learned about my body andit  is the only sport that relaxes me and makes me feel in a secure environment. I also tried athletics, skiing, and horseback riding, and I can say that if I had to leave the swimming, maybe go on horseback. But when I’m only three days without swimming crazy and I’m crazy who I’m around. “

“The coaches have believed in me and spurred. And now here I am in London, my second Paralympics. It is an emotion so strong that sometimes still can not believe it. I think there are still prejudices about disability among people with disabilities themselves: it is scary to think that if you are blind or have other disabilities can still do the things that other people do. “

(From: http://corrieredibologna.corriere.it/bologna/notizie/altrosport/2012/3-settembre-2012/cecilia-vola-buio-l-acqua-mi-protegge-2111666219364.shtml)