Motorcycling-Dovizioso should be fit for season opener despite surgery

ByReuters

Published 29/06/2020 at 09:14 GMT

June 29 (Reuters) - Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso is expected to be fit in time for the start of the 2020 MotoGP season next month despite needing surgery for a left collarbone injury, his team said on Monday.

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The 34-year-old sustained the injury on Sunday following a crash while competing in a motocross race at Faenza in northern Italy. Ducati announced later in a tweet https://twitter.com/ducaticorse/status/1277248775879364608 that Dovizioso was due to have the operation in Modena.

MotoGP said this month that it will resume the 2020 season stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic with back-to-back races at the Jerez circuit in Spain on July 19 and 26.

Five circuits will host double-headers and Spain will have seven races as part of the revised 13-round European calendar.

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Italian Dovizioso finished runner-up behind Spaniard Marc Marquez of Honda in the 2019 season. (Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris)

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