When you are at the top, you do not imagine that everything can end at any moment. This is what was going to happen to Marc Marquez when, in that damn circuit of Jerez, was the protagonist of a terrible fall that caused the fracture of the humerus. Result? Destroyed his entire 2020 season. But this is not even the worst thing, because after this injury, “The Cabroncito” he was really afraid of not being able to get back to running.
Eight months after the accident of Jerez and three right humerus surgeries later, the worst is finally behind us, and number 93 will likely be on track in Qatar for the first date of MotoGP, perhaps not to race seriously, but at least to try and do a few laps on a real one Moto Gp, since until now it has only carried out tests with motorcycles weakened to 212 horsepower.
This very long ordeal was told by a documentary by DAZN titled “Fearless” (Without fear, ed). It is a video lasting 25 minutes, in which the testimonies of Alex Marquez, the former driver Carlos Checa, the team manager Alberto Puig, the psychologist Francisco Solano Romero are collected.
The 8-time world champion now sees the light at the end of the tunnel, but does not hide moments of deep terror and suffering:
“It was a tough few months before I accepted it and swapped the chip. It was consuming me. I was doing nothing and I was losing weight. An anxiety builds up in your body […] Everything indicated an improvement, but there was the fear of another injury, that you have to stay like this… The fear that you will have to stay still without a bike exists ”.
The hardest time were the days when there were rumors of a risk of osteomyelitis, resulting in the need for a fourth surgery, which in all likelihood would have kept him out also throughout 2021:
“There was a chance the infection was still there, the world collapsing on him. What did the injury teach me? That this can end when you least expect it … But this will certainly not change my style ”.
As mentioned, in recent days he has been training with one RC-V street is in Catalonia that a Portimao, and its presence is expected in the first weekend of MotoGP a Losail:
“I’m not afraid of never being the same again Marc Marquez. If I can’t be the same Marc Marquez, I will not return. When I come back my body must be ready to take the same risks. Gradually I feel stronger. The arm already has other sensations and the butterflies have returned to the stomach […] We pilots never talk about death. If you get on a motorcycle thinking about these things, stay at home. I like the risk. I don’t know how to train by maintaining myself. Each race is as if it were the last ”.
With any luck, this drama will make him even stronger, and in no way compromise his pursuit. to the 9 World Cup record held by the legend Valentino Rossi.
OMNISPORT | 20-03-2021 17:27
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