Italy's Alex Zanardi emerged as one of the biggest stars of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, as his two gold medals from those Games made him one to watch ahead of Rio 2016, which is drawing closer to the one-year mark on Monday (7 September).

The overall experience at London 2012 left a lasting impression on Zanardi, but he expects Rio 2016 to have a different flavour. "London left a difficult example to follow, but it would be a mistake to try to be better than the British by copying what they did," he said.

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Source: http://www.paralympic.org/