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Z as Zanardi: is the last box of the author’s alphabet with which the next number of 7, exceptionally on the newsstands on Thursday 24 and then for two weeks, he says goodbye to 2020 and looks to life to come. Each letter of the alphabet is entrusted to a great signature of the “Messenger Service“. Interviews, spikes, portraits: you will discover what happened to us and in the world, what impacted and moved you. With your eyes already set on the protagonists of 2021. From Kamala Harris to Ibrahimovic, from relatives to Zoom. we bring a large fragment of history dedicated by Carlo Verdelli to the (im) possible mission of the great Alex.
Recovery of sensory functions
You see you see Feel, feel. Still without speaking because they keep the hole in his windpipe as a precaution but soon they could close it too, as they already did with the skull after repairing it piece by piece. And the brain within him, back to safety, has begun to weave the connections again, to recapture one by one the wonderful functions of which it is capable. In conclusion, Alessandro Zanardi is alive and fighting like only him. As for the face, her beautiful pointed face with blue eyes is back as before, more than before.
Recordman of resurrections
The impossible feat becomes possible. Finding the strength who knows where, going fishing in abysses unknown to humans, Sandrino da Bologna, by profession a pilot, holder of the world record for resurrections, is slowly climbing the second Everest that suddenly appeared in front of him, and this is one one of the few good news of a very bad year. His first Everest is already a legend. Not only did he come out alive from an accident that literally cut him in two, his legs on one side and the rest of his body on the other, during a car race in Germany (it was 2001, he was 35 years old), but he even got stronger. and more champion. skip like crazy in the world of handbikes, bicycles to push with arms. Four Olympic golds and two silver medals, a streak of titles, a fame as a living monument by not giving up, the intention of taking on another challenge, Tokyo 2021, the first Games after the virus. At 54 and passes.
Face to face with death
Then the crash of his head that breaks when hitting a truck on a road in the Siena countryside, on June 19, this unfortunate Ventiventi, during a stage of a kind of tour of Italy on two wheels, something between charity and the desire to take a ride with a little joy after infamous months. The second enchanted mountain awaits you behind a blind curve, as cursed and unpredictable as the first. And like the first, it brings him face to face with death.
His third life
This time it’s over, fairy tales don’t award an encore. The first responders shake their heads. But the heart continues beating, his wife Daniela throws herself on his Alex as if to prevent the soul from escaping. “Stay here, stay awake, it’s me, look at me, look at me.” She manages to keep him conscious, despite the agony of finding him, once again, marked by fate. But it is precisely from that moment, of the overflowing force of a love that does not prevent anything from absorbing it, that Zanardi goes off to his third life. Few expect him in those hours, tanned as he is, much further than here. But the first night passes, then the second, the third. The son Niccolò placed a photo of his hand over his father’s immobile white hand: «It is a tiger. It will “.
Infection and recovery
And the tiger, once again, for the second time, does everything possible not to disappoint him, not to deny him. Like the heroes of children’s comics who rise after each terrible blow, Zanardi engages with fate another fierce and invisible battle. You don’t even give up when, after the otherworldly efforts of the first few months, an infection returns you to the starting square. You slide down the wall and find yourself exhausted at the beginning of the climb. Other operations, other hospitals, the San Raffaele in Milan that reassembles the puzzle of a low-cut man with infinite patience and skill.
Daniela’s strength
And above all cure, especially surgeon, on top of the wave of popular affection that penetrates from below the intensive care rooms caresses the exhausted body of everyone’s champion, behind each desperate relapse and each imperceptible advance, There is a woman, Daniela, Manni Daniela in Zanardi, who married her Sandrino in 1996 and for 24 years, with good and terrible luck, she remarries him every day.
Common passions
You won’t find an interview of her, a posed photo, a guest on television. She is there for him and his Niccolò, silent, tireless, unapproachable not out of arrogance but out of modesty. Once they told her: “What a beautiful husband you have found!” And she: «Very true, but it was better». They met on the Formula 3 tracks. Daniela was the manager of a very competitive team, the races followed by the wall. Sandrino, one who hooks cars to the walls instead of giving up on overtaking Same blood, same passions, similar characters, great love. It is thanks to Daniela that Zanardi was born for the second time, after the German tragedy of the Lausitzring. It is thanks to Daniela that Zanardi is on the right track to reach the end of his third life. He never gives up, she never gives in to him. Together, there is no Everest to put you off, no matter how strong it is. The first question that Ms. Daniela asked the doctors after the last accident was not “what will become of him, how will he stay if he survives, what future does he face?” No, the first and last question was: “Can we save him? And then do what you have to do.
The following steps
On November 21, Alex went transferred to the neurosurgery room in Padua, close to home (The Zanardi family lives in Noventa, 8 kilometers away).
Shake hands upon request.
If they ask you to do it right, give your thumb up.
Where is Daniela? And he barely turns his head towards her.
It is certainly not the summit but at least we are at the foot of the climb, which is already an unexpected result. The “tiger” will take care of the rest, little by little, one centimeter after another, with his arms and his heart, until the goal. The next step, which doctors attach great importance to, will be to stick out the tongue. We won’t see, they won’t tell us. But when it happens, because it will happen, it will seem like a mockery of the cruel god who from Olympus has aimed so much at the pilot son of a seamstress and a plumber.
December 20, 2020 (change December 21, 2020 | 07:14)
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