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Rossi to be on crutches for six weeks

By Matt Beer

Saturday, June 5th 2010, 21:00 GMT

Valentino Rossi is expected to be on crutches for at least six weeks in the wake of his leg-breaking crash in practice for the Italian Grand Prix, but the surgeon treating him was satisfied with the outcome of the operation to fix the wound

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