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After the winter break – literally

Trivia time. What, aside from silverware, connects Moto GP champions Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner with 500cc champs Wayne Gardner, Mick Doohan, Kevin Schwantz and the late Sir John Surtees, plus current Dakar rally winner Toby Price, multiple WSB champ Jonathan Rea, and TT legend John McGuinness?

The answer lies in their anatomic snuffboxes.

No, I’m not being impertinent. Anatomic snuffbox is the formal noun (it hasn’t got a medical name) for the dip between the pair of tendons at the base of the thumb

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