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How injury has defined the MotoGP title fight

Dani Pedrosa's injury at Motegi is the latest of a series of unfortunate crashes that have affected the battle for this year's title. Toby Moody analyses them

What is it with this continuing misfortune that has struck so many of MotoGP's top riders in 2010?

Valentino Rossi fell off his motocrosser between the first and second races, and then struggled through Jerez hoping it would go away. A fortnight later he fell the wrong way into the Mugello gravel and snapped his lower leg like a pencil.

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