Alessandro Zanardi

In a motorsport season wracked, wrecked and rebuilt – often on the fly – by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, fans came to expect the worst. When the greatest racer of his generation Sir Stirling Moss, died in April, it was deeply sad, a punch to the gut of everyone who adores the sport as we do, but it wasn’t shocking.<br>The calamity that befell Alex Zanardi two months later, on the ...

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The Corriere della Sera reports that Zanardi, who was badly injured in a handbike crash in June this year, is responding to voices with hand gestures having recovered his hearing and sight following a series of brain operations after his brutal accident.<br>Zanardi, 54, remains hospitalized in the neurosurgical department of the hospital of Padua. The report says that he is able to shake hands and ...

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The news came in an official statement from the Milan hospital where he has been under treatment since July 24.<br>The 53-year-old Zanardi has undergone four operations since his collision with a truck exactly two months ago on June 19, and which left him with serious head and facial injuries.<br>He was treated initially at the Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital in Siena. After three operations he ...

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Ex-Formula 1 and CART driver Zanardi struck a vehicle while taking part in a handbike event in Siena on 19 June, leaving him with head and facial injuries. Zanardi underwent surgery upon admission and has remained in a medically-induced coma since, with the most recent update being issued last Wednesday confirming his condition remained serious.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Hospital says Zanardi's ...

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After being transferred to hospital following his handbike accident during a race event in Italy on Friday, Zanardi had three hours of neurosurgery and maxillofacial surgery (related to the face). <br>An official bulletin issued on Saturday morning said that after the surgery Zanardi had been “transferred to intensive care, has stable hemodynamic and metabolic parameters. He is intubated and ...

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The latest update from the Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital in Siena, issued at 10am Italian time, says that his vital signs are stable.<br>The full statement reads: “Regarding the clinical conditions of the athlete Alex Zanardi, hospitalised from 1800 on June 19 in very serious conditions at the Santa Maria alle Scotte polyclinic following a road accident that occurred in the province of Siena ...

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Zanardi was transferred to the Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital in Siena by helicopter after his handbike was in collision with a truck.<br>A bulletin issued by the hospital at 7.45pm Italian time said: “Alex Zanardi, car driver, paracyclist and TV presenter, was hospitalised in very serious conditions at the polyclinic Santa Maria alle Scotte.  <br>“He was involved in a road accident in ...

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According to multiple news reports from Italy, Zanardi was involved in a crash with a heavy vehicle on highway 146 while participating in the Siena event. He has been transferred to a local hospital.<br>There has been no official update on his condition nor any word on injuries he may have suffered.<br>The accident occurred at 5.05pm local time, with early indications pointing to Zanardi having ...

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