Fabio Lanzoni, known worldwide simply as Fabio, became the central figure in one of the most bizarre celebrity news stories of the 1990s when he was injured during the inaugural ride of a new roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia. The event occurred on March 30, 1999, during the media opening of Apollo’s Chariot, a steel hypercoaster that was then one of the most anticipated new rides in the United States.