Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez, who suffered a fractured right arm in July 2020, will undergo surgery again. He will likely miss the rest of the season.
‘I will be operated on next week. (Since the injury), I feel great discomfort. I realized this season that I was not having fun, I am in a lot of pain, I am not running as I want,’ said the Spaniard, without being able to specify the duration of his unavailability.
‘It will be long’
‘I have no ideas, the doctors will say after the operation, but it will be long, of course. But it was the time to do it,’ he replied at a press conference, referring to his desire to prepare for the 2023 season. ‘I obviously did everything possible to avoid this operation, but it ‘is the solution to come back’, he continued, assuring that the problem was clear: ‘Too much rotation in the arm’.
Marquez (29) fell heavily on Saturday during qualifying for the Italian GP, but this new fall did not affect his decision which had already been taken the day before, he said. This will be his fourth operation on the right humerus.
Operation in the United States
It will take place on Tuesday in the United States at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota), announced his Honda team. He will return to recover in Spain, where the duration of his unavailability will be formally established, she said.
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