Paralympic champion and former System One driver Alex Zanardi underwent a 3rd mind operation with docs saying he remained in a serious condition after a serious accident in early June. Zanardi, who had each his legs amputated after a motor racing accident 20 years in the past, suffered severe head accidents when he misplaced management of his handbike throughout a highway race in Tuscany and crashed into an oncoming truck in June. Medical doctors on the Siena hospital the place Zanardi is being handled say the most recent operation went nicely by way of facial reconstruction, however there stay grave considerations about his neurological situation.
The 53-year-old suffered head accidents with a number of facial fractures within the crash on June 19.
Zanardi has turn out to be one of many best-known figures in paralympic sports activities following the 2001 motor racing accident on the Lausitzring observe in Germany.
He raced for Jordan, Minardi and Lotus in Formula 1 within the early 1990s earlier than switching to the CART championship in the US the place he was collection champion in 1997 and 1998.
He returned to F1 with Williams in 1999 earlier than heading again to CART.
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Zanardi gained two gold medals on the 2012 London Paralympic Video games and 4 years later gained two extra in Rio de Janeiro.
He additionally gained the Rome marathon in 2010 and the New York race the next yr.
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