MILAN -- Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi was moved back into intensive care Friday, three days after being transferred to a neurological rehabilitation center.
Zanardi was moved from a hospital in Siena to the Villa Beretta rehab center in Costa Masnaga on Tuesday, a month after he was seriously injured in a handbike crash.
But the hospital that runs the center said Zanardi has been transferred to the intensive care unit at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan after his condition became unstable.
Zanardi underwent three surgeries at the Siena hospital to stabilize him and reconstruct his severely damaged face after he crashed into an oncoming truck near the Tuscan town of Pienza on June 19 during a relay event.