Marc Marquez say goodbye to MotoGP World Championship 2022. The Spanish rider will undergo surgery to recover from a shoulder injury that has haunted him since Jerez 2020. This will be the fourth time that Márquez has undergone surgery to solve this problem and he hopes that this will be the definitive one.
A hard decision to assimilate that the ’93’ has been meditating for several months and that, after a difficult start to the season, he has dared to take following the advice of his team.
LAST MINUTE! ???? Marc Márquez will undergo surgery on his arm again and will momentarily stop competing after this weekend.
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— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) May 28, 2022
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In Mugello, the Honda He played his last race before undergoing the operation that will leave him off the track indefinitely. Márquez finished in tenth position at the Italian GP and couldn’t help but get emotional as he crossed the finish line, knowing that it was the last time he had been on a bike for a long time. Tears began to flow and Marc closed his helmet to prevent us from seeing that image.
The one from Cervera was greeted with applause when he arrived at the box of the Repsol Honda Teamwho will miss his pilot very much during these months of absence.
On whether he will return after the operation, Marc Marquez it is clear. “I’m sure I’ll be back. I’ll be back to be happy for those who are supporting me, for those who are suffering with me, to smile together again and this is my goal, to return to enjoy riding a motorcycle again, to ride again as I wanted “.
“If I will be just as fast or if I will win or not, I don’t know, but at least enjoy riding the bike. This is what I will try to do, it is what I have not done this year and a half. Yes, I have won races, but all on the left. I have won in Misano on a right-hand circuit, but it was a weekend in waters, everything squared and I won, but it is not the way I want to continue competing, “he assured on DAZN.
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“So there is no other option but to have surgery, because the doctors have also told me that, it is not because I want to, but because they have told me that I cannot continue like this because I am going to injure other things, which is what is happening now, so hopefully it will be the last operation and at least I can lead a normal life, in quotes, a normal athlete’s life, which is to train, run, enjoy and stop taking anti-inflammatories and all these things, physios just to train “.
Marc Márquez, on his fourth shoulder operation: “I feel liberated because this way I didn’t see myself competing much longer”
“It has been a very difficult weekend at the level of concentration, especially. On a physical level, all the last ones I have suffered and felt pain, and although he told us the reality, it was so as not to have the same question every press conference. It was the way of trying to isolate myself, of trying to convince myself to give myself another chance, because that’s what the doctors told me, to keep insisting, but as I said yesterday I reached a point where I said ‘this is not going to work’, Márquez explained in DAZN after the Mugello race.
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“In Portimao and Jerez there was no improvement, I was doing the exercises they told me every day and there was no progress and that is where, through Dr. Samuel Antuña, America, they made me some 3D bones to calculate exactly what was happening. No It could have been done earlier because the bone wasn’t fully consolidated, and that’s where I got the call here. If I hadn’t been here I wouldn’t have run the race. But being here, having done FP1…”. he continued.
“I didn’t feel obligated, but I was looking forward to continuing to compete this weekend. To help my team, Honda and give feedback for the future because there were some things to test. But it was very difficult to stay focused. , very difficult on a psychological level, but now I feel a certain liberation. You could say that I can feel concern about an operation, but no. Liberation because in this way I did not see myself following, I did not see myself competing much longer and having a solution, I think that this opens the door again and hopefully it will be a better future”.
Marc Márquez reveals the reason why he feels identified with Rafa Nadal and the injury that haunts the Balearic
Marc Marquez y Rafael Nadal They have gone through similar situations throughout their career. Both carry a brutal physical ordeal, the Catalan with his shoulder and the Manacorí with his foot. In fact, in Rome, Nadal made a revelation that left everyone frozen after being eliminated in the round of 16. “I play to be happy, but pain takes away your happiness,” said the Spanish tennis player.
The Honda rider acknowledges that he knows very well what that feeling is. “I felt very identified with Rafa Nadal in Rome and I understood him perfectly. In fact, in Madrid I spoke with him a bit and I know that his foot is diminishing him and limiting him a lot, but they can’t find a solution, or so it seems,” Marc revealed to Izaskun Ruiz.
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“They have given me a solution, this is the most important thing. They have given me this peace of mind because there was the option of being told that I was fine and that if I thought it was necessary the operation could be done, but it was not like that, directly They told me it was next week because you can’t wait any longer”.
“An athlete, and even more so a winner, needs victories, rewards, but not only that, he needs happiness for all that to come and with pain your character changes, yours pay for it, they are hard times, you wake up, all day the shoulder, the exercises, you’re thinking all day, you have the buzz. Then in the race when I go out and ride the bike I don’t think. When I think less is when I’m behind someone, I go on instinct, I don’t think about the position or anything, and more or less it comes out. But it comes out a lap or two, you can’t do a lot of laps in a row.”
Marc Márquez: “Operating doesn’t mean winning again, for me, operating and having fun again will already be a victory”
The eight-time motorcycling world champion is optimistic about the operation and hopes to be able to compete again to win, but he admits that this is not what worries him the most.
“It’s been a complicated year and a half, but it has helped me a lot to harden myself, so I hope that this will be a point to drive the way I want, then if I win or not.”
“Operating doesn’t mean winning again. For me, operating and having fun again will already be a victory,” he concludes.