'Ironman' Zanda to have feet, hand amputated (2)

(ANSA) - Cagliari, March 9 - Italian 'ironman' Roberto 'Massiccione' Zanda is to have his feet and right hand amputated after suffering frostbite in the Yukon Arctic Ultra race in Canada and Alaska last month.
    Aosta-based specialists have been unable to save his limbs, which were subjected to -50 C temperatures for 17 hours in the 400km ultramarathon, medical sources said Friday.
    "The operation will be long and delicate," said Zanda's partner Giovanna Caria, adding that "Roberto is calm".
    Zanda said: "I can't wait for the operation, I'll keep fighting as I've always done, I'll do so with bionic limbs too".
    A Turin-based prosthetics firm, Officina Ortopedica Maria Adelaide, on Friday offered to supply Cagliari-born Zanda with the artificial limbs.