After a difficult season, conditioned by a shoulder injury, the former European and world champion in the short course 100m butterfly race, is flying again in this Olympic year. Twenty-five-year-old, ‘Iaia’ loves nail reconstruction, she adores cosmetics (if it were for her she’d spend the whole day at the perfumery) and enjoys the company of Cleo, her ginger cat who even has an Instagram account. She loves motorbike travelling because, after all, like most people from the Emilia region, motors are her passion: it’s not just the racing and the roaring of her favourite engines, (especially motorcars) but also the design and the details. In Rio, the Italian butterfly soars to win. It is not by chance that his favourite number 1.