Gavin Emmett
@gavinemmett
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Sports reporter, presenter, commentator, journalist, all-round geek. Had a tough paper round. Check out the podchat at
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Valentino’s clearly earned some points over the years with whoever’s in charge upstairs.
#MotoGP
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Personally, can’t understand those who can’t take pleasure in seeing an elite professional, who has stared down the abyss of a career-ending injury, come back and live their dream again.
#BeKind
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Sportsmanship and respect between rivals. Love it.
Be more Pecco.
🙌🏼 Respect ☺️ Congratulations,
@FabioQ20
! 👏🏼 🏆 It’s been an amazing season and we are glad that we were able to bring on the fight to you! We will try again next year 😏👊🏼
#ELD1ABLO
@PeccoBagnaia
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@MotoGP
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I wish motorcycle racing got this kind of mainstream coverage after epic contests like Assen or Austria. Or when
@calcrutchlow
finished on the podium. Or won a Grand Prix. Or when every Moto3 race happened. Or after another
@marcmarquez93
save... Ad infinitum. Ho hum. 🤔💭
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The only thing making me scratch my head at the moment in MotoGP, is the booing. I mean, what the actual.....? 🤯🤬
I know there will be people who say “we’ve paid our money, we can do what we like...” but seriously? After racing like that??!
What don’t I get?
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If you didn’t have time for Dovi before, you were and always have been wrong.
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😭
Dear Mr Marco Simoncelli.
One day I will going up to the podium with your father so please watch us from the sky...
Tatsuki Suzuki
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It’s reassuring to know that in this rough time, good things still happen to good people. And in
@JoanMirOfficial
and the whole crew
@suzukimotogp
a load of good people have today got their just rewards for years of hard graft. Richly deserved all round. 👏🏼 🏆🥇
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Race direction have confirmed that, due to arcane pub rules, as
@marcmarquez93
didn’t nominate the pocket he was potting the 🎱 in , unfortunately he has had the World Championship nulled and voided. 🤷🏻♂️
#8ball
#foulshot
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So many reasons not to forget this in 2017...
#OnThisDay
in 2006 at Valencia,
@NickyHayden
on Repsol Honda RC211V finished 3rd to claim the
#MotoGP
World Title.
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There’s lots of reasons why
@Petrux9
is such a popular winner, this is just one.
#UNSEEN
: An unexpected call for
@Petrux9
after his success at Le Mans got him a bit emotional... 🥰☺️
#FrenchGP
🇫🇷 |
#ForzaDucati
@motogp
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@DucatiMotor
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Just confirmed by
@ValeYellow46
in his media debrief that he wants to continue, has informed Yamaha and is 99% sure of deal with
@sepangracing
in 2021. Boom. 💥
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Beautiful sport, but it can be cruel. The wonderful thing is, he will DEFINITELY get another chance.
You have to feel for Joan Mir 😞
He had that race wrapped up before the red flag...
#AustrianGP
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🤯🤯Hope you enjoyed the first night of action! An hour and a half after and Still got the adrenaline flowing. 😅
What a sport we’ve got. We’re all lucky to be witnessing this era...
#QatarGP
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Back.
"Last week was very frustrating, I said 'maybe I stay at home and don't go to Jerez! My motivation was less!" 😂
Valentino Rossi reacts to his 199th MotoGP podium and says he had to put a lot of pressure on Yamaha to get the bike set-up he wanted 👀
#AndaluciaGP
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I need a lie down. Thanks to
@AleixEspargaro
I've hit my exercise goal for the day! 😅
So chuffed for the lad. You wondered if it would ever come, but he's done the hard yards in every respect to get to the top step. And led
@ApriliaOfficial
there too.
A* performance. 👏👏👏
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Just landed home to the worst news. Absolutely gutted. The world's a worse place for not having Nicky in it. RIP champ.
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Can't believe we won't see that grin again. 2006 was greatest season I've ever witnessed. Never forget the tremble in his voice after it.💔
"Always charming, always respectful and unquestionably talented."
RIP Nicky Hayden, the 2006 MotoGP World Champion.
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What a ride by
@BradBinder_41
. First ever South African, first ever KTM winner in the premier class. Just his third race. A rookie. Made it look easy. Stunning. 😂
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Some big shoes to fill, but I’m sure that having the now elder statesman of the team
@NeilHodgson100
alongside will help. Roll on next weekend, having to avoid coffee so as not to get too giddy.
Our new lead commentator is....
🎙
@gavinemmett
🎙
One of the very best in the business, he'll be talking us through every race this season 🙌
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We knew it was coming, but still a sad day.
Jorge Lorenzo has announced his retirement from
@MotoGP
.
The five-time World Champion will ride his final race at the
#ValenciaGP
😢
One of the all-time greats 🙌
#ThankYouJorge
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A true world champion, who made it possible for others to realise their dreams of becoming world champion too. RIP Fausto. Thoughts firmly with his family, friends and his team. With Daijiro and Sic now. 💔
The news we would have never wanted to give, and that unfortunately we are forced to share with all of you. After nearly two months battling against Covid, Fausto Gresini has sadly passed away, few days after turning 60.
#CiaoFausto
❤️
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Chuffed immensely about this. 👌🏼 he’ll be up there next year, mark my words.
Great news for Jake Dixon and British motorsport 🙌
The 23-year-old has signed for the PETRONAS Sprinta Racing team and will carry on in Moto2 next year...
A big step up 👌
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Watching this again and I still can’t believe it one year on... still sorely missed by every single person in the sport, especially that wry smile. Was an absolute honour
@NickyHayden
#RideOnKentuckyKid
One year on we remember Nicky Hayden.
Ride on, Kentucky Kid...
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Think I’ve finally dried out after yesterday. Such a shame for everyone there was no racing, but felt especially for all the fans and volunteers who’d made such an effort and expense to make it an ace British GP up until Sunday.
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Gent.
Congratulations
@marcmarquez93
for this deserved 2018 World Championship victory! I’m glad about the great battles we had this season, it��s been fun!👍😜
Congratulazioni Marc per la meritata vittoria del mondiale! Abbiamo fatto delle gran belle battaglie anche questa stagione!👍
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Just been taken to 160mph down the Hangar straight on this by
@calcrutchlow
. AND made it back in one piece... just. 😱
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Good old chat with
@ValeYellow46
this aft. He was expecting
@suziperry
so he properly got the short straw but he reminded me it could have been worse... could have been
@NeilHodgson100
🤭🤐🤫
Will be on
@btsportmotogp
over the weekend of course!
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Love him or don’t love him but you can’t take your eyes off
@marcmarquez93
box office. 🍿 that was nasty.
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Just posted a photo @ St James's University Hospital
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Seriously impressive. Doff of the cap to
@Reddingpower
IT'S A ROOKIE WIN!🏆
@Reddingpower
makes it four different winners from the first four races, the first time that has happened since 2004!
#ESPWorldSBK
🇪🇸
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Oh my...... 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 just slightly happy for the lad! Even happier for Herve and the whole of
@Tech3Racing
all those years, and FINALLY!!! 🥇
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Red mist for Fenati deserves more than a black flag. More than naughty, downright daft... 🤦🏻♂️
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Who’s chopping onions??
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The latest update from this morning on
@NickyHayden
. "Made it through the night but still in serious condition..." 🤞🏼🤞🏼Tough it out Nicky💪🏼
Nicky Hayden ha superato la notte ma resta gravissimo
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Marquez joking about Lorenzo to HRC at GP launch in Barcelona, “I said I wanted a strong team-mate, but it didn’t need to be THAT strong!” 🤣
“Dije que quería un compañero fuerte, ¡pero tanto no hacía falta!”, bromea Márquez sobre el fichaje de Lorenzo por HRC en la presentación del GP de Cataluña. “¡O HRC lo ha hecho muy bien o los periodistas muy mal!”, se descojona (de nosotros).
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So sad to read about this. Hellraiser in public, absolutely charming and mild-mannered in private. Loved his bikes and racing and put a lot back into the sport. RIP
The Prodigy's Keith Flint, singer on hits such as Firestarter and Breathe, dies aged 49
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Four-year ban for Iannone is shocking and unprecedented in the sport, but completely unsurprising considering the facts at hand. Burden is on athletes to prove innocence and they’d couldn’t. Always felt an appeal was a risky strategy, and it’s been proved thus. Sad day all round.
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- The raw emotion was the sign of all the hard work rewarding Nicky with his dreams being fulfilled. What a man. Honoured to have known him.
Can't believe we won't see that grin again. 2006 was greatest season I've ever witnessed. Never forget the tremble in his voice after it.💔
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Two legends together
@circuitamericas
, great to see.
@KevinSchwantz
@ValeYellow46
http://t.co/aoi5M8C1S7
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This is 'UGE NEWS for us Brits. Harped on about this being necessary for years. So impressed to see the day-to-day work ethic of
@MichaelLaverty
in putting this and all his other projects together. He'll smash it.👊🏼✊🏻
🚨 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗚 🚨
@MichaelLaverty
confirms that from 2022 he will be the owner of a British
#Moto3
team 🙌
Exciting news for everyone in British motorsport! 🇬🇧
Michael runs us through all the details (so far!) 👊
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MotoGP’s going to replace coffee in my diet from now on.
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Just had a new provisional grid sent out for Moto3 and looks like
@johnmcp17
is starting on pole. Lots of laps taken away - most likely exceeding track limits. Get that man a watch!!
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Had the most comical back to back interviews with Pol and Miguel before... let’s just say, their views on the incident don’t converge - even with data, facts, opinions on the table. You’ll hear it over the weekend
@btsportmotogp
😆
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“It made me feel young again...” says
@WayneRainey60
. I bet there’s millions of others who feel the same watching this champ. Lump in throat stuff. 👌🏼
History Made: 26 years after his accident in the Italian Grand Prix, Wayne Rainey got the chance to ride again when he took to the racetrack on a modified Yamaha YZF-R1 this week in California.
@WayneRainey60
@YamahaMotorUSA
@alpinestars
@RideDunlop
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🥲 beautiful
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Anyone else cutting onions watching that
@tetsuta45
interview after winning his first race at same place as his “brother” Shoya Tomizawa did in 2010?
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All the chat from
@f1
fans about the Vettel penalty. All I can say is that in
@MotoGP
if you’ve made a mistake and gained an advantage by “exceeding track limits”, you’re going to be penalised, no matter the decision about affecting others.
#notsayingjustsaying
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Amazing words from Tommy. Heartfelt condolences to him, the whole Hayden clan and Jackie. As well as
@HondaWSBK
team,
@NickSannen
& friends💔
It is with incredible sadness we have to announce that Nicky Hayden has passed away. Full statement:
#RIPNicky
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I’d suggest MM93’s massive crash in WarmUp will test the concussion protocols… He was proper staggering in the gravel trap. The fact he even made it to his feet is incredible in itself. That. Was. Huge.
#differentbreed
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25 and 46 going in my lottery pick this week. Add 21 and 5. and 55/57 from Moto2 also...
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That helmet tells me that
@ValeYellow46
has gone out with got a yellow-banded Michelin hard on. Riding a bit stiff. He’s up for this one. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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Drop the 🎤
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My personal opinion is that Dani would retire if not offered a contract. But then, what would I know, this is the silliest of silly seasons. 🤯
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Mic drop from
@johnmcp17
. Judged that one to perfection. And that last lap...? 👨🍳’s💋. Apart from the run to the line. Did someone move it?! Panicked for a second there.
#17
from 17th on the grid... Takes the W. 💥
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Join us tomorrow for more expert commentary. 😬😜
"There is not a CHANCE of him getting up to 2nd" 😂 🥈
It's okay
@Neilhodgson100
we didn't notice 🤭
#MotoGP
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#CatalanGP
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Spot on.
Nicky Hayden - the backyard racer who conquered the world.
Read our profile of "the nicest guy in the paddock".
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The boys are ready! We’re about to go live
@btsportmotogp
Moto3 FP1 up first.
@KeithHuewen
@NeilHodgson100
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Morning London! In place up the BT Tower ready for French GP practice starting at 7.55am on
@btsportmotogp
2. It’s drizzling in Le Mans by all accounts...
#LondonCalling
#FrenchGP
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Here we go.... Again. 🤞
WE. ARE. BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A minimum of 13 races starting July 19th in Jerez 🇪🇸
Four more races outside Europe TBC before July 31st.
#MotoGPisBack
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It’s all true! This Sunday on
@btsportmotogp
10am. We’ll chat to
@ValeYellow46
and
@marcmarquez93
from my ruddy attic in West Yorks! And you can help pick
#TheGreatestRace
with
@suziperry
and
@NeilHodgson100
Thrilled to say that we will have both
@ValeYellow46
and
@marcmarquez93
on the show this Sunday 🏍
#TheGreatestRace
@btsportmotogp
10am Live from LEEDS 😂 includes That race from Laguna Seca 2008 😱🙌🏻
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Allora...
"I feel good. It's a new adventure with the PETRONAS team."
Valentino Rossi is getting ready to celebrate 25 years in GP racing and hopes he can be fighting at the right end this year...
#QatarGP
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Perfect storm. For those saying Jorge should have looked right to see Dani, bear in mind he’s most conscious of Dovi recovering his line on his outside. Can’t look both ways, it’s not a T-junction. Just ‘one of those things’ in my opinion...
Frame-by-frame 👀
Neil Hodgson breaks down the crash between Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso.
Who do you think was at fault? (If anyone...)
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Gutted for the lad. Can’t knock the effort today.
Disaster for John McPhee 😭
He crashed out on the final corner after battling for the win the entire race...
He left it all out there.
#Moto3
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#SpanishGP
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🙌🏼
The greatest show on two-wheels 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒 on BT Sport 🙌
We'll continue to bring you every race, qualifying and practice in
@MotoGP
until 2024!
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And well done to all the
@btsportmotogp
team for keeping going. Back home you won’t have seen the effort going into making sure we still had things to talk about! Especially
@charliehiscott
for “securing” the
@Reddingpower
exclusive.... Monumental. 😉
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One of my favourite laps to commentate on ever, if a little too excitable!
OTD, ten years ago 🤯
Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo went all-out on the last lap of the
#CatalanGP
🙌
Arguably the greatest finish to a race in MotoGP history...
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Ouch. Terrible news.
Ánimo Ana!! Get well soon. 👊🏼✊🏼
@AnaCarrasco_22
, has suffered a crash in testing fracturing the D4 and D6 vertebrae. She is conscious and receiving expert treatment in hospital in Portugal. Ana is suffering some pain but moving all her limbs and has feeling throughout her body. Get well soon Ana x
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Unseen work at tests... this is
@AleixEspargaro
race sim. Seriously impressive. Looking like Aprilia have found something. Chuck em in the podium hunt...
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Nothing official on
@NickyHayden
from the hospital until a family member can be spoken to in person by the doctors. Italian law.
#GoNicky
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Genuinely gutted to hear of this. Mike is one of the bedrock foundations modern MotoGP has been built on and his contribution to the sport shouldn’t be underestimated. My heart goes out to Irene, his loved ones and the amazing IRTA family he sculpted. Truly sad day. 💔
MotoGP™ is saddened to hear about the passing of Mike Trimby, founder and CEO of IRTA.
We are sending our deepest condolences to Mike's wife Irene, family and loved ones.
Mike will forever be remembered as one of the most important figures in the history of motorcycle racing.
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Just the 7 days... bit more than 168 hours, just over 10,000 minutes. Not that I’m counting or anything.
⚠️ ONE WEEK TO GO ⚠️
Bikes are so very nearly back!
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Sad to hear about
@VerneTroyer
. Had such a laugh with him on the weekend he visited Laguna back in the day. He may have been small in stature but was a huge personality and knew how to get the most out of life.
#RIPVerneTroyer
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Colour me shocked 😳
A fresh look and fresh new faces for
@tech3racing
in 2025. ❤️🔥
Welcome to the Orange Squad, Enea Bastianini and Maverick Viñales! 🤝
#KTM
#ReadyToRace
@MotoGP
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Just confirmed to us
@btsportmotogp
by
@JohannZarco1
that there was an offer from Honda. But he says “if you’re good enough to beat Marc on the Honda, you’re good enough to develop the KTM to being a top bike...” more on BT Sport 2HD, from 7.45am tomorrow...
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That Kiefer Racing Moto2 team of 2017 wasn’t too bad after all was it?! Massive congratulations to, and so happy for, two of the good lads in our sport.
@tarranmac95
and
@DomiAegerter77
🏆🥇🍾
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Spoken to MotoGP Medical Officer Dr. Di Filippo, and he told me all 3 riders passed all the physical tests required by the medical code. I did question how you can replicate a near-300hp motorcycle... maybe the code needs looking at, if you are of the opinion they shouldn’t ride.
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Dani saying he had options, but felt this was the right decision. Carmelo Ezpeleta announces he will be inducted as a MotoGP legend...
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Commentary position looking sweet this weekend…
#covid
#Leeds
#nottropical
#notMandalika
@btsportmotogp
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Self-isolation for me as of yesterday as the gf has a temperature on the borderline. The great thing is that even as NHS front-line she doesn’t get tested so is out of action for 14 days. Great system.
#NHSCovidHeroes
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
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Love this! Starstruck
@TonyArbolino
🤩
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Just looking back at old photos from the time - this was from Nicky throwing out first pitch at Dodgers Stadium. With him is another great friend gone far too soon, paddock photog ledge, Marco Guidetti. 🙌🏼 😔 💔
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Happy big Birthday to me old mucker
@matt77roberts
today!! To think we were just 24 year old pups when this was taken.... 😭
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Unbelievable that this is the case. But excellent news. Having seen the crash in slow motion it’s a miracle...🙌🏼 being knocked out probably saved him in some weird way from further damage.
👉🏻 After first checks at the Medical Center of Mugello,
@PirroRider
was diagnosed with concussion and dislocated right shoulder, which was put back into place. The Full Body Scan done at Careggi Hospital of Florence was positive and there are no further complications (1)
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Behind the scenes right now for FP1 - WE ARE GO!!! (again)
@MotoGP
@btsportmotogp
@UKTriumph
@KeithHuewen
@NeilHodgson100
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