http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26327880-5006301,00.html
SOUTH Australian cycling star Stuart O'Grady was taken to hospital after collapsing following a hot lap with Australia's 2007 MotoGP champion, Casey Stoner, on the Valencia circuit in Spain.
O'Grady, who had a compulsory medical check from MotoGP doctors before climbing on the back of Stoner's Ducati, passed out when the Australian was introducing Adelaide's Tour de France veteran to other riders.
Cycling SA executive manager Max Stevens said O'Grady bit his tongue and collapsed in front of most of the MotoGP's starting grid. "It was a corporate event in the morning of the race," Mr Stevens said.
"Casey Stoner started to interview Stuart and introducing him to these people.
"Stuart couldn't answer the questions and then he collapsed.
"They called the medical team and luckily he had the doctors on standby for the race."
O'Grady had just completed his UCI ProTour season with team SaxoBank before heading to South Australia in preparation for the UCI Tour Down Under.
Spanish doctors confined the two-time Tour Down Under and 2007 Paris-Roubaix champion to a hospital bed after the ordeal.
Medicos also are performing precautionary scans, Mr Stevens said. "He woke up in hospital and they're going to do a series of tests," he said.
"We'll know more in the next couple of days.
"Ann-Marie, his wife, is at home in Monaco and we're getting all this information through third parties."
SOUTH Australian cycling star Stuart O'Grady was taken to hospital after collapsing following a hot lap with Australia's 2007 MotoGP champion, Casey Stoner, on the Valencia circuit in Spain.
O'Grady, who had a compulsory medical check from MotoGP doctors before climbing on the back of Stoner's Ducati, passed out when the Australian was introducing Adelaide's Tour de France veteran to other riders.
Cycling SA executive manager Max Stevens said O'Grady bit his tongue and collapsed in front of most of the MotoGP's starting grid. "It was a corporate event in the morning of the race," Mr Stevens said.
"Casey Stoner started to interview Stuart and introducing him to these people.
"Stuart couldn't answer the questions and then he collapsed.
"They called the medical team and luckily he had the doctors on standby for the race."
O'Grady had just completed his UCI ProTour season with team SaxoBank before heading to South Australia in preparation for the UCI Tour Down Under.
Spanish doctors confined the two-time Tour Down Under and 2007 Paris-Roubaix champion to a hospital bed after the ordeal.
Medicos also are performing precautionary scans, Mr Stevens said. "He woke up in hospital and they're going to do a series of tests," he said.
"We'll know more in the next couple of days.
"Ann-Marie, his wife, is at home in Monaco and we're getting all this information through third parties."
I think you mean "exerting".
I think you mean "exerting".
Or have those guys kissed and made up now!
