Alex Zanardi a year later, the doctor who helped him speaks: “Those decisive minutes”

Of those 27 minutes, between the excitement of the rescues and the tears of the relay teammates, the thing that most impressed him is the almost surreal silence. “It was as if everyone was holding their breath. As if they were too scared to speak, or busy repeating themselves in their minds: come on Alex.” If Alex Zanardi’s race did not end a year ago, on that downhill curve with his handbike, in Pienza, the merit is also partly his.