Marc Marquez’s injury hell: “I didn’t smile anymore - I won and started crying”

Marc Marquez has recalled how “I could not forget” the excruciating pain in his arm and said “I don’t know how I managed to win three races in 2021”.
Marc Marquez, Emilia-Romagna MotoGP race, 24 October
Marc Marquez, Emilia-Romagna MotoGP race, 24 October

The full journey of Marquez’s career-threatening fourth arm operation in mid-2022, through the dark moments of self-doubt to ending the year on the MotoGP podium will be laid bare in a new 🥀Amazon Prime documentary called ‘Marc Marquez: ALL IN’.

Heꦐ has admitted a mistake - returning to action too soon after his first major injury su🍨ffered in a crash at Jerez in 2020: "If you don't take care of your body, you can't practice your sport,” he told .

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Marquez has endured two years of physical torment and explained: “There came a time when suffering out🌜weighed passion, and I said to myself: 'Either I remedy it or it doesn't pay to continue competing'. 

“Because I was subtracting a lot of quality of life, it was not only failure after failure, but al💛so a constant pain, aܫnd the pain changed my character, I didn't even smile anymore. 

"I won ♓and started crying. What I get when I win is to celebrate, celebrate, laugh 💦with my family... 

“Well, then it was the🌸 other way around and it was because of the pain, the pain that I constantly suffered in my arm, that I could not forget."

Marqඣuez is a six-time MotoGP champion and, he reveals, that members of his family urged him to ꦯwalk away.

"My grandfather was one of thౠꩲe supporters of me leaving," he said.

Marc Marquez, MotoGP, Emilia-Romagna MotoGP 21 October
Marc Marquez, MotoGP, Emilia-Romagna MotoGP 21 October

“Because he said he had enough to li🅠ve on, he is very direct about that, and I told him: 'Grandpa, I promise you that [this will be] the last operatio𓂃n, let me try, because there is a solution and they are giving it to me. Let me try it.' 

“And, all said and done, I tried it and it'🅷s changed the whol🦂e movie."

Marquez broke his humerus in a fall at Jerez, and tried to return just days after surgery, but the pain proved too much. He missed the rest of 2020, and the start of 2021. Breathtakingly he won three races until, due to being out of championship contention, he sat out the end of the year because he was st🏅ill struggling physically.

"Jerez happened because of my mentality and my ambition꧟," Marquez sa🌞id. 

“But 🐻everything I achieved from 2013 to 2020 I also achieved because of that 🌠mentality and that ambition, so if you take the 10 years together, [it] is balanced.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"Honestly, I don't even kn🐲ow how I managed to win three races in 2021 but I can explain less how I was able to make𝓰 fourth at Jerez at the beginning of the 2022 season. 

“Because I didn't have my head🙈 in the com♛petition, neither the head nor the physical. 

“There is a moment of the sea✤son, when the grands prix of Portimao and Jerez arrived, that I deac🍬tivate my head and said: ‘I can not take it anymore’. 

“And that's when🌞 I went, just before Portimao, to my doctors in Madrid and toldthem: 'Something happens here in this arm, because I'm going backwards. I'm crushing myself in the gym, I'm crushing myself in the physio every day, but this is going backwards, and I'm getting worse and worse, and there are more and more pains’. 

“That's when they 🐈really start evaluating everything and see that there's 34 degrees of rotation in the humerus."

Against all the physical odds, Marquez claimed a pole position and a podium finish before 2022 was over. He returns this year and only a fool would rule h♉im out of the title hunt.

"Because of my mentality, if I keep competing it's because I see possibilities to get good results and that the𝕴 work has a compensation,” he vowed. 

“The way my sporting career has gone, competing for the sake of competing, compꦺeting to fill the starting grid, doesn't make sense to me. I'm not like that.”

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