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KTM Enduro Factory Team rider David Knight will return to the Enduro
World Championship this coming weekend where the reigning Enduro 3 World
Champion will compete in the GP of Portugal.
Forced to withdraw from
the opening round of the EWC series, the GP of Spain, after violently
rotating his left hip, Knight is hopeful that he'll be able to put his
difficult start to the championship behind him and return to his winning
ways.
David Knight: ‘It's a hugely frustrating and
disappointing situation to be in for many reasons, not least because I'd
had a great pre-season and was coming into the world championships
feeling really good. Things had gone well as far as my training, testing
and racing before Spain and I was really looking forward to the
defending my E3 title. I hate not racing especially as my team and all
my sponsors have, like myself, put a huge amount of work in over the
last few months. The other thing that's really frustrating is that it's
one of those injuries that's fine 95 per cent of the time, not like a
broken bone that when it's broken is broken. It's hard to explain simply
what the problem is, but it's basically the same thing that put me out
of the first day of the last round of the '11 world championship, in
France. My hip will only rotate so far, mechanically, before it stops.
The problem I have is that there's some additional bone on the top of
the ball
on my
femur, and on the inside of the joint. When my hip rotates as far as it
can I have bone hitting bone, which is what's causing the problem. If I
catch my foot, like I did in Spain, it kind of pulls the hip joint
apart. That pulls the muscles and ligaments, but also damages the
cartilage. And when you damage cartilage you get a build up of fluid,
which makes things worse. I had scans on my hip earlier this week but
for now I want to try and get back racing. I can walk ok, and if I can
ride with my feet on the pegs most of the time I'm hoping things won't
be too bad. I'll not know how things are until I start the first day,
but with some painkillers I'm hoping I'll be able to manage the pain and
do my best.' |
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KTM Enduro Factory Team rider David Knight
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