Any "hero" stories of broken-bone riders returning early to race?
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From: Champ on 15 Jul 2010 17:11 On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:12:36 -0700 (PDT), Baldy <voeut(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> >If Rossi falls on the right (wrong) leg it is sure to re-break >> This assessment is based on your detailed medical expertise, yes? >Healing time for a tib & fib fracture is 6 - 8 weeks. Rossi is still >walking on crutches and it looks very painful. My experience of wound >healing is that if it is still painful it ain't back to strength. Of course it's not back to strength. Does that mean "it's sure to break" if he falls on that side? There's many different ways to fall off a motorcycle, and not all of them put enough stress on a (weakened) leg to break it. Apart from that, he's got metalwork in there holding the bits together anyway. -- Champ neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: CT on 16 Jul 2010 04:09 Champ wrote: [Rossi] > Apart from that, he's got metalwork in there holding the bits together > anyway. And now cleared to race on Sunday! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/8795830.stm -- Chris
From: Julian Bond on 16 Jul 2010 07:33 CT <me(a)christrollen.co.uk> Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:09:18 >And now cleared to race on Sunday! >http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/8795830.stm I hope they did the old UK club racing trick. If you can jump off this chair onto your broken leg, you can race. -- Julian Bond E&MSN: julian_bond at voidstar.com M: +44 (0)77 5907 2173 Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ T: +44 (0)192 0412 433 Personal WebLog: http://www.voidstar.com/ skype:julian.bond?chat No Wife, No Horse, No Moustache
From: Champ on 16 Jul 2010 08:34 On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:33:52 +0100, Julian Bond <julian_bond(a)voidstar.com> wrote: >CT <me(a)christrollen.co.uk> Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:09:18 >>And now cleared to race on Sunday! >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/8795830.stm >I hope they did the old UK club racing trick. If you can jump off this >chair onto your broken leg, you can race. I recall a story about John Reynolds[1], at the race meeting the weekend after he'd broken his collarbone, being told that he'd be passsed fit to race if he could do some press-ups. Which he duly did. [1] multiple British Champion -- Champ neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Mark N on 17 Jul 2010 12:27
Julian Bond wrote: > I hope they did the old UK club racing trick. If you can jump off this > chair onto your broken leg, you can race. Ha! My guess is the doctor's visit went something like this: Dr. Fischer: Let's take a look at that leg, shall we... Ah, this looks just fine, almost as if there was no break at all! The Doctor: You're looking at my left leg. I broke the right one. Dr. Fischer: Mr. Espeleta told me to look at the left one, and that's all I'm allowed to do. Yes, this leg looks just fine, let me sign that form and we're done with it... Seriously, there was no chance at all that Rossi wouldn't have gotten the green light this weekend. On the topic of doctor's clearance and this track, here's a bit from 2006: Casey Stoner, on the other hand, was fighting fit, or so he insisted. And extremely awkward doctor, said otherwise, and he was out of the race. It all happened on Sunday morning warmup, when the Australian had a second tumble of the weekend. It was on the fast right onto the back straight, caught out by a cold front tire, and a heavy enough fall. He walked away, and insisted he had not lost consciousness at any point. The track doctor, Jorg-Uwe Fischer, thought otherwise, and required he be taken to hospital for a CAT scan. Clear or not, and Stoner said it had been, and in spite of entreaties from Clinica staff, he wasn't allowed to race. Some thought this high-handed medical intervention timely, though Stoner was rather unfortunate to be the pawn in the game (he has benefited in the past, once allowed out to practice on a 250 while still so concussed that he had trouble seeing the brakemarkers). The power and staus of Dr. Costa's Clinica Mobile had grown hugely over the past decade of quick-fix trauma control, but when it comes to declaring riders fit to race, there's a clash of interests. This very race had to be stopped last year when John Hopkins, pumped full of painkillers after a practice fall, lost control midpack in the early laps, his foot too numb to feel the gear pedal. It is more correct that an independent doctor should have the say-so, and Stoner's team boss Luccio Cecchinello argued convincingly for the FIM to appoint someone permanent to the role, as in F1 racing. Had Dr. Fischer exceeded his brief? He had certainly been prepared to err well on the side of caution. Others welcomed a flexing of muscle by a faction too long prepared to play a secondary role. |