Zanardi has 5-hour surgery to rebuild his face after crash

Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi has undergone a five-hour surgery to reconstruct his face following a crash on his handbike last month. It’s the third major surgery that Zanardi has had since he crashed his handbike into an oncoming truck near the Tuscan town of Pienza on June 19 during a relay event. Dr. Paolo Gennaro of the Santa Maria alle Scotte Hospital in Siena says that because of the complexity of the fractures the operation required three-dimensional digital and computerized technology that was “made to measure” for Zanardi. Zanardi was returned to the intensive care unit in a medically induced coma after the surgery.