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Valentino Rossi considering skipping Japan GP

Sports Aug. 16, 2011 - 05:53AM JST ( 9 )

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Tel PorterAug. 16, 2011 - 10:42AM JST

Several hundred kilometres away from the worst-affected zones. The people who aren't going surely can't think that by being hundreds of kilometres away for less than a week will have any harm at all.
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herefornowAug. 16, 2011 - 11:12AM JST

They should have moved the race to Suzuki. Then it would have been a non-issue.
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herefornowAug. 16, 2011 - 11:13AM JST

Sorry, Suzuka.
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SmorkianAug. 16, 2011 - 12:23PM JST

“I really don’t think I’ll go to Japan. ... I was hoping that the championship organizers would make the right decision, but that hasn’t been the case and now we’ve got a serious problem.”

Ah, the "right decision". Rossi is now a radiation expert!
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It"S MEAug. 16, 2011 - 12:28PM JST

His call.

But it looks like other teams and competing riders will be there. Now can he afford to give the possible championship points away by not attending?

Also how will his team take it if their star-rider refuses to partake?
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fabricijAug. 16, 2011 - 01:51PM JST

This is a real concern. It's not that Italians will not come to Japan ( they dont even rate on the tourism numbers ) but the fact that GP racing has a global audience. Inbound tourism is already down 50% vs same period last year. ( March to June ) Someone please talk to Valentino.... The last thing this country needs is to have a Tourism jobs effected as well......
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herefornowAug. 17, 2011 - 12:19AM JST

Rossi is now a radiation expert!

Smorkian -- as usual, you miss the point and try to reduce everyrthing to a simple sound-bite, in your blind attempt to support Japan. You do not need to be a "radiation expert" to understand that they could have simply moved the race to Suzuka and made this a non-issue. But, instead, Japanese pride, arrogance and self-focus being what they are, they decided they had to make a statement to the world, and say Motegi is perfectly safe, even though Fukushima is still spewing radioactivity. The point is he is not a radiation expert, and would not have even have to give this a second thought if Japan had simply moved the race. That way no one, including Rossi, would have to trust Japan's statement that Motegi is safe. Which, given the stories all over the world, as recently as last week, that Japan has kept critical radiation information from their own citizens, is hard for a foreigner to do.
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SasorizaAug. 17, 2011 - 01:32AM JST

Motegi is in Tochigi, and isn't on several hundred km from Fukushima. about 150 at most.I just don't understand why didn't they choose Suzuka.
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SmorkianAug. 17, 2011 - 07:10AM JST

The point is he is not a radiation expert, and would not have even have to give this a second thought if Japan had simply moved the race.

Oh yeah he would have. Look at how many international musicians and such have cancelled concerts that were in Tokyo or even Osaka!

You do not need to be a "radiation expert" to understand that they could have simply moved the race to Suzuka and made this a non-issue.

Why should they? Why is this 'the right thing'? And how does Rossi have any idea whatsoever? He doesn't.