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started 14 games over two seasons
xiaoweiwei 发表于 2013/1/17 19:30:00 |
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LONDON - Alex Zanardi just cant stop racing. Roddy White Jersey
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The former Formula One driver is vying for a Paralympic medal Wednesday
in paracycling - a hand cycle powered by the arms - at the Brands Hatch
race track, where he once raced cars. Its really incredible, when you
realize the 45-year-old almost died in a horrific accident in a 2001
CART race in Germany.
"For a brief moment I found myself thinking of all the things Ive done,"
Zanardi said on his Twitter feed before leaving for the London
Paralympics. "Im a lucky boy!"
His journey to the Paralympic Games began at the American Memorial 500
on Sept. 15, 2001, at the Eurospeedway Lausitz in Germany - the only
American-based series to go forward on the weekend after the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks.
Zanardi, a former two-time CART champion, had had a difficult season and
started 22nd in a field of 27, but the car was responding well. He was
enjoying the drive, passing one car after another, until with 13 laps to
go he was in the lead.
Zanardi went into his final pit stop and the crew chief waved him off
urging him to "Go, go, go!"
But as he built up speed to get back into the race, the car spun out of
control and he veered onto the track. Canadian driver Alex Tagliani,
travelling at close to 200 mph (320 kph), could not avoid him. The
reinforced carbon fiber cone of Taglianis car sliced through the area
beside Zanardis left front wheel and cockpit, the weakest part of the
vehicle.
On the track, Dr. Terry Trammel slipped and fell as he raced to the
wreckage. He thought he had fallen in oil, but it was Zanardis blood.
The crash had severed Zanardis right leg at the knee and his left at the
thigh some five inches above the knee. The drivers lower legs had
disintegrated like those of land mine victims, said Dr. Steve Olvey,
director of medical affairs for CART at the time. He had lost 70 per
cent of his blood, his pelvis was fractured in five places and he had a
lacerated liver.
But Zanardi was alive.
At the hospital, Zanardis wife, Daniela, told him he had lost his legs.
But that was only part of the problem. He had been in a coma for three
days, his heart had stopped at least once, and he was alive only because
of the medical response to his injuries.
Much work for his recovery lay ahead.
NASCAR driver Max Papis, who has known Zanardi since they were kids in
Italy, recalled visiting his friend in the hospital, where Zanardi
glanced at Papis new shoes.
"He said to Look at the positive side of this. For a long time I will
not have to spend money buying those," Papis said.
Pushing the limits, he began to walk again only months after the
accident. Always tinkering, Zanardi used technology and his experience
from working with elite race cars to forge a new life - to adapt to his
new circumstances, to learn how to use prosthetic legs.
"You dont know how many times I fell just taking ridiculous small
steps," he told the BBC. "It was bloody hard."
Two years after the accident, he returned to Lausitz to finish the 13
laps, and later began racing specially modified touring cars. But he had
many other races to run. Pity didnt occur to him.
"Hes a lion," said his former teammate, Jimmy Vasser. "He just never
gave up."
Zanardi thought of it as part of his destiny, just something that
happened to him, said Chip Ganassi, who owns the team that Zanardi once
raced for.
"That was like a speed bump for him," Ganassi said.
Zanardi took up paracycling to stay in shape. A hand cycle is powered by
the arms and features two coasting rear wheels and one steerable front
wheel. In 2007, he was invited to attend the pasta party at the New York
City marathon that was thrown by his sponsor, Barilla. He decided that
if he was going, he should take part.
At the race, he passed a well-known rider and finished fourth. By 2011,
he was first.
Now hes challenging American Oscar "Oz" Sanchez, who won a gold medal in
the time trial at the Paralympics in Beijing and a bronze medal in the
road race.
Sanchez is a formidable competitor who overcame overwhelming odds as
well. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sanchez turned a life of drugs and
street gangs around by joining the U.S. Marines. He was about to
transfer to the Navy Seals when he suffered a spinal cord injury in a
hit-and-run motorcycle accident.
Zanardi knows the course will be tough - he once drove the track at
Brands Hatch, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) from London. To make things
worse, he had a bad crash with his favourite bike a few weeks ago - a
picture on his Twitter feed showed a crumpled vehicle, its front wheel
askew.
But Papis said Zanardi had shrugged off such accidents.
"He would say, It cant be that bad, because I cant break my leg anymore,
" Papis said.
In the days before this big race, the normally talkative Zanardi has
shunned interviews, concentrating on the task at hand, even as interest
in his story has skyrocketed.
On Wednesday, its all about the bike - even though its about a million
other things, too.
"In my career Ive always received a lot of support, but I would not
expect so much as Im getting these days," he told followers on Twitter.
"Thank you all."
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ligament on the bottom of his right foot and hes hoping to avoid
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Logan McVeigh, Carson Perreaux, Mark McNeill and Josh Morrisey had the goals as Prince Albert (4-0-1) won its fourth in a row.
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Brandon Jennings added 17 points for Milwaukee, Samuel Dalembert and
John Henson each had 12, Monta Ellis finished with 11 and Mike Dunleavy
had 10.
Andre Drummond scored 19 points for Detroit before fouling out, and
Corey Maggette added 14. Michael Palmer Womens Jersey
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Such is life in the NBA when youre recovering from the flu and returning
from a four-game Western trip, but Horford and the Atlanta Hawks got
the lift they needed in a lopsided third quarter. Red Roddy White Jersey
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Price was a second-round pick (35th overall) out of UCLA by Tampa Bay in
2010. The 6-1, 303-pound Price has started 14 games over two seasons,
with 27 tackles (23 solo) and three sacks.New York, NY (Sports Network) -
The New York Rangers re-signed free-agent defenseman Anton Stralman on
Thursday.
No terms of the deal were released, but reports state it is for $3.4
million over two years.
The 25-year-old Swede collected two goals and 16 assiists in 53 games,
while posting a career-best plus-9 rating for the Rangers last year. Dominique Franks Jersey.
In 265 NHL contests over five seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs,
Columbus Blue Jackets and Rangers, Stralman has racked up 13 goals and
92 points.
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