I'm no medical doctor, and I'm more than willing to be told off by anyone who knows better. So the first reports that came out were that Rossi broke his leg in a training accident. Later it was stated it wasn't training, but rather he was just mucking around with some mates and riders from the VR46 academy. The public statement which followed was something to the lines of This is where my doctor knowledge leaves me wanting. But essentially from what I understand, he broke both his tib and fib, and it supposedly looked something like this: However, his break was closer to the knee. See how thick the bone is at that part? That's nuts. So according to reports, the procedure was a success: So his bones were reconnected with an internal shaft and pins, similar to this: Now perhaps this method allows for the patient to not have a cast, and have the leg be load bearing, I'm not quite sure. However filming a TV show for Italian press a few days after having this procedure, not showing much duress is either highly applaudable, or suspicious. I'm going to go with suspicious in this case, because of a further development after the surgery. This was shut down so quickly, that I couldn't find a single trace of evidence regarding any scan. So either someone published a BS article (which is not entirely impossible), or there is more to this than meets the eye. Rossi was not this secretive when he had his 2010 crash, which was a lot more serious than this one, why is it so hush hush this time around? There is no doubt that Rossi had some sort of accident in my mind, I'm just suspicious about the severity of the injury. Or did he re-injure his old break? Was it deliberately oversold to make everyone go "Wow how amazing he's riding a motorcycle after (insert stupidly low number) days after seriously breaking his leg" and hype up the championship for the last races of the season? I don't know, this just me hiding under my tin foil hat. Edit: Or Occam's Razor. I guess we'll never know.
