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Alex Zanardi crashes hand bike , head trauma

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This guy can’t catch a break. Wasn’t he paralyzed from an F1 accident?
 
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Damn that sux, guy has terrible luck. Prayers for Alex.

On a side note The ‘99 Zanardi edition NSX is super cool

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wallnutz said:
The guy is a bad ass and a great inspiration! He has a never give up attitude. I hope he pulls through ok.
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Ditto. He was my favorite driver growing up and I loved watching him at the Long Beach Grand Prix.
 
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Oh no... Alex, I'm praying for you.

Zanardi is one of the greatest examples ever of overcoming adversity. He barely escaped with his life when his legs were traumatically amputated in a crash at the German Lausitzring oval track in 2001.

If CART medical director Dr Steve Olvey hadn't made the call for a load and go, Alex would have died in the track medical center. His heart stopped in the helicopter on the 45 minute flight to a Berlin trauma center, as he had lost three fourths of his blood. A transfused blood substitute and clotting agent kept him alive.

Years of intense work have given Zanardi a competitive outlet that he excels at. He took up hand biking as a rehabilitative sport. Alex has become a world class paralympian, winning gold medals in hand biking in the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics.

He also raced in DTM, Europe's touring car road racing series, in 2018, and the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2019. The man has courage in spades.

Dammit.
 
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If there were ever a soul who could pull through this, he is that one. Never met him, and don't follow the motorsports he was involved in, nor the ParaOlympic sports. One of my friends brought him to my attention years back, when I had a wreck. When I thought how crappy things were with a walker then, and was depressed to hell, what I saw from Zanardi was an eye openner. He went from the pinnacle, to starting over...and reaching new hieghts.

Impressive, to say the least. Maybe even stubborn...but driven, either way. Thoughts of him, and a prayer for him tonight.
 
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rrrr said:
Here's some more information from a story in La Repubblica, the Florence newspaper. Click the Google prompt for the English translation.

firenze.repubblica.it

Alex Zanardi travolto in handbike: è gravissimo. Terminato l'intervento, è in terapia intensiva

Le sue condizioni sono critiche, l'operazione è durata tre ore. Era partito da Firenze per la Val d'Orcia per il tour Obiettivo 3: sottoposto a …
firenze.repubblica.it firenze.repubblica.it

It's not good news. The surgery to address his head injury lasted three hours.
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When I read the 3 hour time in the first article, I kind of thought the same. It seemed more like possible triage or stabilization...really a sad thing. I hope I'm wrong.
 
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