Meet “Beatrice,” fencing champion and quadruple amputee Streaming now on Salon Premium, a film about Beatrice Vio, the Italian wheelchair fencing dynamo By Tom Roston ...

Beatrice Vio cultivated a passion for fencing when she was five years old. At 11, she contracted severe meningitis. In the hospital, the doctors gave her an unimaginable choice: Keep her limbs and ...

Beatrice Vio enters the fencing arena gracefully and graciously, uttering quiet words of good luck to her competitors. But within minutes she is transformed into an unflinching force of nature ...