Beatrice de Lavalette: Surviving the Brussels Airport Bombing to Ride in the Tokyo Paralympics
Monday, September 04 2023 by Elliette Baker
By Laura Scaletti Portraits by Melissa Fuller Beatrice de Lavalette lives by the motto, “No matter what happens to you, you decide your future.” On March 22, 2016, Beatrice’s life changed in an instant when she was standing just a few feet away from a suicide bomber at the Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium.
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