Bebe Vio returns to the platform for WEmbrace Sport

Bebe Vio in Milan

Sports and inclusion were the protagonists of a press conference featuring local and national institutional figures from Olympic and Paralympic sports. The meeting, which took place today in Milan at Fondazione Cariplo, è was the occasion to officially launch the WEmbrace Sport 2023 event, which will be held on Monday, October 16 from 7:30 p.m. at the Allianz Cloud in Milan and during which the public will have the opportunity to see for the first time in Italy the Olympic and Paralympic mascot of Paris 2024.

During the meeting, moderated by journalist and TV anchor Valeria Ciardiello, Giovanni Azzone, President of Fondazione Cariplo, Maurizio Molinari, Head of the European Parliament Office in Milan, responsible for the European Parliament Media in Italy, Teresa Grandis, President of Associazione art4sport ONLUS, and François Bonet, Consul General of France in Milan, took the floor.

Beatrice “Bebe” Vio, Paralympic foil champion, and Luca Pancalli, President of the Italian Paralympic Committee, then spoke remotely.

Minister for Disabilities Alessandra Locatelli also sent a video message of support for the’initiative.

Also present in the audience, in the front row, were Rosanna Volpe, Chairman of the Board of Directors in Milanosport S.p.A., Lorenzo Enrico Lamperti, Director Milanosport S.p.A., Marco Rasconi, President UILDM Nazionale – Fondazione Cariplo, Pierangelo Santelli, President CIP Lombardia, Marco Riva, President CONI Lombardia, and Claudio Pedrazzini, Vice President CONI Lombardia.

Guests included TikTok creators Nina Sophie Rima, Antonio Iuliano, Annicka Noman, Elena Hazinah, Carlotta Fiasella, Chaimaa Cherbal and Jessica Brugali.

This year’s edition will host an exciting Italy-France challenge as a tribute to the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics. The kermis will be presented by a pair of presenters consisting of Ilaria D’Amico, journalist and TV host, and Gianluca Gazzoli, podcaster, creator and radio and TV host. It will be directed by Mauro Dell’Olio, a director and speaker with a long experience in the field of sports events. 

Italian athletes will be engaged against French athletes in four different Paralympic sports, wheelchair fencing, amputee soccer, sitting volleyball and wheelchair basketball, in a meeting-comparison between the Olympic and Paralympic worlds. WEmbrace Sport è in fact, the event conceived and realized to demonstrate that integrated sport è a concrete goal and è also able to maintain the level of professionalism à and competitiveness; of the Olympic context. In an event that will host legends and emerging champions, the audience will be able to spend an evening of pure fun.