Valentino Rossi is back, and it shows. The paddock is buzzing again, as it did at Mugello, before the Fiat Yamaha rider suffered the vicious highside that snapped his tibia and put him out of action for the last six weeks. At the pre-race press conference, Rossi's answers were nearly drowned out by the frantic clicking of camera lenses, the Italian forced to squint in the barrage of flashlights going off.
"You could tell from the crowds round his motorhome that Valentino is back in the paddock," Nicky Hayden quipped. The press was no better, crowding round Rossi after the official part of the press conference was over, standing four deep to try and interview the Italian.
Rossi was clearly happy to be back in the paddock, and thanked the doctors for doing such a great job. He had been lucky, Rossi explained: "the doctors put a pin in the tibia, and the tibia is very straight, so it is in a perfect position." This had meant that the surgery had been relatively straightforward, and the bone had been quick to heal.
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