勇敢に立ち向かう Zanardi clinches メダル number three with silver in team cycling relay


Alex Zanardi had to settle for silver on the final day of cycling 競争 at the London 2012 Paralympic Games at Brands Hatch.

The 45-year-old ex-決まり文句/製法 One driver won individual time-裁判,公判 and road race gold, but in the mixed H1-4 team relay, Italy's three-person team finished behind the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs as Marianna Davis won her third gold of the Games in combination with Matthew Updike and Oscar Sanchez.

Alessandro Zanardi of Italy competes in the Mixed H 1-4  relay

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Zanardi, Francesca Fenocchio and Vittorio Podesta were second, with Switzerland's ジーンズ-Marc Berset, Ursula Schwaller and Heinz Frei third.

'Once again, I am speechless,' Zanardi said.

'You know, when you 達成する something on your own it is 広大な/多数の/重要な, but winning as a team is even better.'

Alessandro Zanardi of Italy celebrates winning the Silv
er Medal in the Mixed H 1-4 Cycling Team Relay

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As for his 未来, Zanardi 追加するd: 'It is perfectly 罰金 for me to go 支援する to normal life, take my son to school, things like that.

'But if along the way there will be a chance to light some more 爆竹s, I won't 持つ/拘留する myself 支援する. It would be a shame to 行方不明になる 適切な時期s.'

Davis was thrilled with her 業績/成果s.

'I (機の)カム here for three golds and I got them,' she said. 'This was the one I was most nervous about, you don't want to let your team-mates 負かす/撃墜する.

'I knew it was going to be a 堅い race, there's some really good teams.

'It was a really good 競争, it was 広大な/多数の/重要な the whole way through.'

Italy's Ivano Pizzi and his 操縦する Lucca Pizzi won the 104km men's tandem road race.

The Pizzi brothers finished five seconds ahead of Krzysztof Kosikowski and his 操縦する Artur Korc of Poland.

Italy's Francesca Fenocchio (left), Vittorio Podesta and Alessandro Zanardi celebrate their Silver Medal in the Mixed H 1-4 Team Rela
y

Party time: Italy's Francesca Fenocchio, Vittorio Podesta and Alessandro Zanardi celebrate their silver メダル in the mixed H 1-4 team relay

Two seconds その上の 流浪して were Slovakia's bronze メダル-winning 二人組 of Vladislav Janovjak and his 操縦する Robert Mitosinka.

Ivano Pizzi said: 'It is an awesome feeling, I feel an 巨大な happiness. I told my brother 'It's now or never', and 結局 we broke away from the 残り/休憩(する). It's a fantastic joy.'

Alessandro Zanardi of Italyraces in the Mixed H 1-4 Cycling Team Relay

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Luca Pizzi 追加するd: 'It was a good race, it's a dream victory. Something I have always dreamt about, and now the dream (機の)カム true.'

The corresponding women's event over 80km saw Canada's Robbi Weldon and her 操縦する Lyne Bessette 勝利,勝つ gold by 33secs from Spanish pair Josefa Benitez and Maria Noriega. Holland's Katherin Goeken and Kim 先頭 D ijk (人命などを)奪う,主張するd bronze in a sprint for third place.


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