00:00It was the best surprise at the Golden Helmets awards ceremony at the Bologna Motor Show.
00:06Zanardi is back on his feet.
00:08I'm not able to walk yet, but this is a first step in the most important race.
00:13I'm so excited my legs are shaking.
00:18And Alessandro made everyone cry like that.
00:20Four months have passed since that accident, you saw him, he's back on his feet.
00:25But then Zanardi and Alessandro amazed everyone with other incredible advances.
00:31We'll show it to you, let's go with him to Abudrio.
00:36We are witnesses of this, we are very happy to witness this progress of Alessandro.
00:45So Alessandro, let's take this short walk.
00:48Yeah, well, it wasn't like he was answering that far away yet.
00:55It's a start though.
00:56It's a start anyway, it's a very emotional start, I must say.
01:03Here, Claudio.
01:06Alessandro, so, less than four months have passed since that Saturday in Germany on that circuit.
01:13Finding you standing here, walking, is beautiful.
01:16How did you do it?
01:18Well, with the help of a lot of people who really went to great lengths.
01:24I can't do it yet, but we're close.
01:26You're so close.
01:28No, I really found Dr. Costa, he created the damage, he advised me to come here to Linea, the
01:36from Budrio, at the product center.
01:38So, tell us about your day in this Budrio center.
01:41How many hours a day do you exercise?
01:44Well, let's change this program a bit, because obviously we're really just at the very beginning.
01:50Excuse the joke, but in reality there are obviously problems related more to complete recovery, especially of the left leg.
02:01and so we still can't work full time, but...
02:07What kind of exercises do you do now?
02:09Well, obviously I'm walking, I started between the parallel bars, then after now I moved on to the tetrapods, then after subsequently to the
02:18sticks.
02:19In short, we are making progress, I'm starting to climb stairs, I'm starting to do various types of exercises, I'm starting to gain weight
02:26stability.
02:27Are these exercises painful or tiring?
02:29Well, especially at the beginning, yes, they were quite a lot, because walking between the parallel bars with the first prostheses, with the first
02:37invasions that I had, it was quite painful.
02:41I was slipping on the tears, but little by little obviously every aspect is being fixed, there is an adaptation and so now things
02:49they are improving extremely rapidly.
02:51And how many people help you in your rehabilitation work?
02:55Well, I have two people who practically just need to sleep with me, my physiotherapist Claudio Panizzi and the
03:03Dr. Costa, who I sometimes call because it's a problem, then he inexplicably appears from the door.
03:08He doesn't carry a cell phone but he has telepathy.
03:12Panizzi, Alessandro is demonstrating a unique willpower, it seems to me.
03:17Yes, incredible, I didn't expect this reaction from him, this allows me to achieve goals that I couldn't have hoped for until yesterday.
03:26Is it also very rewarding and important for you to work with him?
03:29Very rewarding, yes, because we are reducing all the training steps thanks to his desire to want to walk again.
03:37with prosthetics.
03:38Sancredi Moscato follows Alessandro's rehabilitation program day by day. How will this program continue now?
03:45Now the first big steps have been taken, the balance, the security and the fact that you don't feel so much anymore
03:52pain during exercise is a good sign.
03:55Now it must become a question of autonomy, therefore certainly improving walking safety, balance and then starting to
04:04think about the most beautiful, most imaginative things, it could even be sport, why not?
04:10Of course, returning to sport, big dreams.
04:12We all hope so.
04:13Alessandro, then there is Dr. Costa, you already mentioned him, who has been close to you from the beginning,
04:18He is the pilots' doctor.
04:20Dr. Costa, have you discovered anything new about Alessandro during this difficult time?
04:27Yes, I discovered it when I entered the room in the hospital in Berlin, in the dim light where Alessandro was sleeping,
04:37He had attached so many machines, so many tubes that helped him live, but when I opened my eyes and, let's say, recognized myself,
04:47he signaled to me that he wanted to write to me,
04:49I understood that the greatness that I knew in this boy, who was formidable in racing, would become even greater
04:58and would have created a castle in his heart,
05:02that it would not only be a castle of riches, of human resources, of energy, but a castle of hope for
05:08what concerns the future,
05:11not only for him, but for all those who suffer and have adversities in life.
05:16Well, there's no doubt about it, I'm sure so. Listen, Alessandro, and in times of crisis, how do you overcome them? Who?
05:22Does it help you? What helps you? What is the thought that gives you strength?
05:27What's left for me, I grit my teeth and then paradoxically today I appreciate things in life that perhaps I didn't value before.
05:35as I can do now.
05:38On the other hand, I don't know if you can call it bad luck or good luck, but in short, getting close to total loss, therefore to death,
05:48as I did, it's something that doesn't happen to everyone and therefore
05:54Perhaps very few people can understand what I felt, what I still feel. There are certainly difficult moments,
06:00of great nostalgia, because obviously I see
06:02coming back from the center by car, I see someone running all sweaty, etc., and I remember when my goals were
06:09run 10 kilometers in under 40 minutes.
06:11Today I struggle to move in 10 minutes and go to the bar, but...
06:15But this incredible serenity that you have on your face, you haven't lost it, in your eyes, you have it right inside you.
06:21But I have many people close to me who love me, my wife in particular, my child.
06:26Your baby Nicolò.
06:26My mom who has been incredible throughout this whole thing, my friends.
06:32My relationship with life's values has changed a bit after this experience.
06:36There is certainly a great desire to enjoy the family more, to be close, almost in a morbid way,
06:42precisely because you realize that everything is so fragile, it's like entering with a child like mine in
06:50a shop
06:50who sells Murano glass, that is, there is really work to be done to keep it still and it is enough to tremble.
06:56But everything is so fragile, so you become even more morbidly attached to it, you value it much more.
07:05So, now you're back on your feet, you're walking again, you're driving again,
07:11Getting a disability license, what are your next goals now?
07:15Costa says that Moscato is also something we can now dream about.
07:19But I have always been accustomed, also due to the profession I have carried out, to think very much in the present,
07:25Of course, I have some dreams, I would really like to do some sports.
07:30Just the other day I was talking to Engineer Donorius, as I call him, Ferri,
07:35who is the one who built my prosthesis and I asked him if he had any news about a bilateral one
07:40who had managed to ski, because it was an activity that I did with great passion.
07:45And he said yes one, and I said who is it?
07:48He's very interested, he told me.
07:51Do you see it?
07:52I didn't know whether to tell him to go to hell or thank him for the compliment, because he really believes in it,
07:58so I hope that...
07:59We believe it too, we at Check Up believe it too, everyone certainly believes it
08:04who followed you from home, we believe we will soon find you on skis.
08:07Alessandro, we are waiting for you at Check Up, in our offices in Rome, as soon as you want, as soon as you can,
08:12with all your team who never leaves you, your guardian angels.
08:17I would also like your child, Nicolò, your wife and everyone.
08:19All right?
08:20Can I bring grandma too?
08:21Everyone!
08:22So maybe you should take a look at it, since it's got some problems.
08:25Shall I walk you to the door?
08:27Take it easy.
08:28Take it easy.
08:31Thanks Claudio.
08:36Straighten your pants, otherwise my knees will get cold.
08:41Thanks everyone, huh?
08:43Until we meet again.
08:44Until we meet again.
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