You Can’t Run with Short Trousers
50 women who made history in sport
Greats. One-of-a-kind. They’re the women wrote the history of sport through jumps, races, throws, goals, medals, dives. From athletics to skating, swimming to tennis, a journey through over thirty-five sports disciplines, from the first versatile pioneers such as Dod and Didrikson to the super athletes of today.
- From Fanny Blankers-Koen to Bebe Vio, passing through Manuela Di Centa, Valentina Vezzali, Nadia Comaneci, Deborah Compagnoni and many others.
- Medals won against all odds, exhausting marathons, races to the limit, somersaults, battles against time, continuous challenges.
Fabiana Bocchi was born and lives in Parma. She graduated from the “P. Toschi” State Institute of Art and refined her skills at the St. Martin School in London, the Illustration School of Sarmede, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata. As a freelance illustrator, she has collaborated with publishers such as Mondadori Electa, Salani, RCS Libri, Zanichelli, and Pearson International.
She lives in Rivalba, a small village in the province of Turin, surrounded by forests, wild boars that knock on the gate, a cat (who collaborates in writing by lying on the computer), two dogs, children, etc... Born in Asti, whose hills remain her heart's landscape. She has a degree in Spanish and is a teacher. She also has Spain in her heart, as Neruda used to say. Hobbies: she is a bit clumsy with DIY and restoration, she loves traveling to discover and photograph strange animals. And she is a bit of a sports fanatic...
