I couldn’t find this being posted before and found it again today because of a conversation with a colleague.

Alex Zanardi pushed and pulled a 17 year old quadriplegic around the Venice marathon course. He’s a big enough example of the human spirit for winning medals and races after his crash but this sort of thing makes him even more of a giant. A genuinely inspiring human being.

That’s awesome. Nice feel good friday morning story. Cheers

He is a bright and shining star.

LIKE

Fantastic , inspiring start to the day

Brilliant. Damn, got dust in my eye.

Not sure there is a word to describe him really.

Can anything stop him? I doubt it.

There’s a few guys in the office with the same problem Harry.

Awesome.

On the BBC SPOTY thingy …. don’t they have an international award?

Not sure it’s a public vote, wonder if he is on the judging panel’s radar?

Should be

Legendary. Would get my vote.

Edit: I don’t think there are many real heroes in the world of sport these days, and it’s a word that’s thrown about all too lightly and frequently, but if anyone in sport deserves to be called a hero then it’s Zanardi.

Absolute legend 🙂

Awsome +1000

Harry – you working in the same dusty office as me?

Brilliant.

Absolutely awe inspiring , humbling and amazing all at once

Bit dusty here as well

He really is a modern sports hero we should all admire

After the Olympics, BMW got one of their DTM cars converted for hand controls and painted gold for him to hoon around the Nurburgring.

I used to think my sporting heroes were Lance Armstrong and Alex Zanardi. Shame, Lance couldn’t hold a candle to this guy.

Truly truly humbling and no doubt giving so much of himself as I am sure propelling one hand bike let alone two is difficult enough. It must have taken a superhuman effort for Alex but even at the line he let the young man win.

Sometimes you read/see something that brings a tear to your eye.

Inspirational.