#95 VERONICA YOKO PLEBANI and the PARALYMPIC PREVIEW
She is just 28 years old, but Italy's Veronica Yoko Plebani has already squeezed more into her young world than most do in a lifetime. Contracting bacterial meningitis at 15 could have been the end, too, but instead signalled a new beginning, one that has taken her to representing her country at three Paralympics in snowboarding, canoeing and triathlon, grace the cover of Italian Vogue and write a celebrated novel telling the story of a young woman whose life is altered but refuses to lie down.