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The 53-year-old man has been fighting for his life since June 19, when he crashed in Tuscany during a relay collision with an oncoming truck.
Several days ago, Dzanardi began “cognitive and motor rehabilitation sessions” with “visual and acoustic stimuli,” Sanrafael Hospital said in a statement.
He’s response to the outside world “is short-lived and in its infancy,” a hospital spokesman said, describing it as “significant progress.”
However, his condition remains serious.
The hospital reports that he recently underwent another operation, led by a neurosurgeon to reconstruct the Dzanardi skull, and is scheduled for another operation in the coming weeks.
The pins in the accident broke all the bones of the face. In Siena, where he was first hospitalized, he was kept in an artificial coma for almost a month and underwent surgery several times.
The athlete is known for his “never give up” attitude.
He lost both legs in an accident at a CART championship in Germany in 2001, after which he turned to parachuting.
In 2012 and 2016, he won four gold and two silver medals at the Paralympic Games and had also planned to participate in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, which have been postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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