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ALEX ZANARDI: “DISABILITY I S ALL RELATIVE”

Alex Zanardi has a straightforward ethos, and it goes like this: ‘every single person has a disability – humans can’t fly, so the plane was invented – but it’s all relative and so it can be overcome’.

Following the Italian’s crash at the Lausitzring in 2001, when his heart stopped seven times and he would require the amputation of both legs above the knee, he’s used that remarkable approach to race handbikes

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