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Faced with disability: making your difference a strength

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Théo CURIN, extreme swimmer, double disabled sports vice-champion, actor.

Author of "The Chance of my life - I made my difference a strength" (Flammarion, 2022) © activImages / Dwheeler

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Having had his four limbs amputated at the age of 6 following bacterial meningitis, Théo Curin, now 21, has become a top athlete.

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At the time, Théo Curin had to relearn everything: eating, getting around, brushing his teeth.

He who had a phobia of water will finally become vice-champion of Europe and double vice-world champion in disabled swimming before swimming across Lake Titicaca in November 2021. National champion but also muse and actor, Théo Curin's career is extraordinary.

But beyond this extraordinary destiny, its story is also that of a reconstruction, another look at the society in which thousands of people with disabilities live.  

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Théo Curin

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