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After breaking his leg on a cycle run, Cal Crutchlow plans to race in this weekend’s German GP and is already sixth fastest in practice for the German Grand Prix - two days after breaking his leg while out cycling. Must be as hard as boot nails some of those GP riders!!!
Bicycles are dangerous, and the latest motorcyclist to prove it is LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow, who slipped while on a training ride in the short break after last weekend’s Dutch TT, and suffered ligament damage to his right knee and a crack in the tibia bone.
The damage was to the anterior cruciate ligament, he revealed, saying: “we had to have some fluid removed as it was swollen”.
Bizarrely, the Briton, whose seventh at Assen was his best finish since placing on the podium at the opening round in Qatar, wasn’t even riding at the time. On a cobbled road, he had stopped to make adjustments.
“I got off to check the saddle height. Bent to look at the saddle, and my foot slipped from underneath on a cobble.”
He was doubtful about being able to ride, but pushed on to place sixth in FP2.
https://ipswichforum.co.uk/communit...n-german-grand-prix-despite-leg-break.109175/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/48877044
Bicycles are dangerous, and the latest motorcyclist to prove it is LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow, who slipped while on a training ride in the short break after last weekend’s Dutch TT, and suffered ligament damage to his right knee and a crack in the tibia bone.
The damage was to the anterior cruciate ligament, he revealed, saying: “we had to have some fluid removed as it was swollen”.
Bizarrely, the Briton, whose seventh at Assen was his best finish since placing on the podium at the opening round in Qatar, wasn’t even riding at the time. On a cobbled road, he had stopped to make adjustments.
“I got off to check the saddle height. Bent to look at the saddle, and my foot slipped from underneath on a cobble.”
He was doubtful about being able to ride, but pushed on to place sixth in FP2.
https://ipswichforum.co.uk/communit...n-german-grand-prix-despite-leg-break.109175/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/48877044
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