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I heard he said to Schwantz [also hospitalised that weekend] that he felt no sympathy towards us racers because our injuries are self-inflicted.”There’s no doubt that Doohan did receive horrendous treatment at Assen. Here’s how he did it... Mick Doohan would dominate the 1994 season…The legs were separated after 14 days, and then the race was on to get him ready for the Brazilian GP at “I could hardly walk but I wanted to give it a go. This technique, created by Russian orthopaedic surgeon Gavriil Ilizarov, was a new treatment outside of Russia.“When I started testing in February 1994 I could steer the bike a lot better and it just improved from there. He booked an air ambulance, ‘kidnapped’ Doohan and Schwantz from the hospital, despite fearsome resistance from the doctors, and flew them to his clinic in Bologna, Italy.“It was a relief to get out of there; it was a bad place to be.

I guess that’s when reality set in – that this was going to be a long road to recovery. Aber in diesem Jahr war die Vorbereitungszeit besonders lange, ich hoffe deshalb, dass wir viele Fahrer an der Spitze kämpfen sehen.» And all this without even a whimper of self-pity. This one was a success, but it wasn’t pretty, they never were.”It’s a quarter of a century since Mighty Mick Doohan won his first 500cc world title at Brno. By the start of ’93 there was quite a bit of angulation in the leg. Doohan in 1999, wearing the number-one plate for the fifth-consecutive season Bad choice!”Controversially, the doctor used plates and screws to fix the injury, instead of a rod, and gave Doohan an epidural, instead of a full anaesthetic. Also, I had a big crash during testing at Eastern Creek and smacked the leg pretty hard. Das Wetter kann zum Beispiel umschlagen, wie man ja auch vom Testen weiss. They cut open the leg from the back of my knee to the ankle and from the top of the foot to the toes. It was extremely tricky because I didn’t have any feeling from the knee down, so my foot would come off the footpeg and I wouldn’t know until it was floating in the breeze. This unique presentation is housed under a sturdy, clear perspex dust cover. Scott Hopkin Published on November 2, 2009 Tweet. Please enable it to continue. Die MotoGP-Legende erklärt auch, warum die unerfahrenen Piloten einen besonderen Vorteil geniessen. “It was a dark time – Costa couldn’t speak English, I couldn’t understand Italian and the other doctors weren’t saying anything – but I was just looking forward. I was just agreeing with things because I wanted to get back on the bike. «Man weiss nie, was passiert. I didn’t want to be all screwed-up with all the drugs, like the hangover feeling you get from pain medication and sleeping pills. Die Karriere von Mick Doohan war neben großen Erfolgen auch von schweren Verletzungen geprägt - 1992 musste ihm beinahe das rechte Bein amputiert werden We're sorry but riders doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. I was just riding around.”Quite apart from his weakness, there were other problems – the leg was badly infected and bleeding. I still couldn’t move about on the bike like I use to, but it wasn’t too long before I was able to compensate for that.”Louie was amazed by his patient’s ability to cope with pain. 0 Shares. The doctor had been speaking with Costa and they got into an argument when the doctor said he would have to amputate the leg if it didn’t improve within 24 hours.”After that argument the doctor returned to Doohan’s bed in an agitated state and ripped off the dirty bandages, pulling away a lot of flesh. IDM Superbike “I was in a fair bit of pain there,” says Doohan with characteristic understatement. I pushed it too hard in training during the off-season and the bone started to collapse. The Australian’s recovery from his accident at Assen on June 26, 1992 is the stuff of legend. No conviction was recorded.Doohan married Selina Sines, his partner of eleven years, on Tuesday 21 March 2006, on “I was pretty bummed out,” he says, understated as ever.At least he now had the off-season to get back to full strength for 1993.