ROME -- Doctors treating Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi say he remains stable after a crash on his handbike but is at risk of unforeseen complications.
In a medical update Sunday, the Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital in Siena said the longer Zanardi's vital signs remain stable, the better off he is. But the update warned that his neurological condition remained grave and that doctors cannot "exclude the possibility of adverse events."
Zanardi, who lost both of his legs in an auto racing crash nearly 20 years ago, has been in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator since he crashed his handbike into a truck near the Tuscan town of Pienza during a relay race Friday.