Surgery For Pedrosa

Paul Carruthers | March 3, 2009

Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa will undergo surgery on his left wrist tomorrow, the Spaniard having suffered injury in his crash last night at the MotoGP test at the Circuit of Losail in Qatar.Pedrosa flew home to Barcelona this morning and was taken directly to the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus hospital. It was there that he was diagnosed as having a fracture to his left forearm/wrist. The surgery will take place tomorrow with doctors set to pin the injury.Pedrosa also injured his left knee and that will also be tended to during tomorrow’s surgery, according to his team.Pedrosa highsided his Honda on the exit of turn 10 at Losail.

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Paul Carruthers took over as the editor of Cycle News in 1993 after serving as associate editor since starting his career at the publication in 1985. Carruthers has covered every facet of the sport in his near-28-year tenure at America's Daily Motorcycle News Source.