Alessandro Zanardi continues to fight for his life. The former formula 1 driver, two-time champion of the North American Cart-series and four-time Paralympic champion in hand bike will be supplied after a three-hour Operation at the University hospital of Siena, in Tuscany, on Friday in an artificial coma in intensive care.
Christoph Becker
sports editor.
F. A. Z. TwitterThe health forecasts, according to Zanardi's a serious accident on a country road on Friday, are more cautious. The Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese announced on Sunday at noon, a sudden deterioration is not to continue to exclude. Nevertheless, the Doctors were cautiously optimistic. "Compared to how he came into the emergency room, has changed his condition, really – and that gives us a lot of hope," said Sabino Scoletta, head of the intensive care unit. Zanardi was a great Athlete, the've done it once before: "Therefore, we hope that it can happen in this challenging Situation."
The physician Giuseppe Oliveri announced on Saturday, Zanardi, who had lost in an accident at a race in the ChampCar series at the lausitzring in may 2001, both legs, had suffered in the accident on Friday, a heavy head and facial trauma, with injuries to one eye. Also brain damage could not be excluded.
Date Of Update: 21 June 2020, 10:19
