Marc Marquez breaks silence on MotoGP COTA absence - and shows injury rehab
A hand injury which requiꦬred surgery caဣused the Repsol Honda rider to miss the second round in Argentina, and now COTA too.
It is a damaging blow to his MotoGP championship🌟 hopes already - but also a set♐back to his fitness.
Marquez arrived into 2023 hoping that the major arm and double-vision problems which have plagued him for two years were largely in his p𓆏ast.
A serious operation last summer saved his career and all🃏owed to ride pain-free f﷽or the first time since early-2020.
But, just three grand prix laps into🏅 20💎23, he crashed into the back of Miguel Oliveira causing injuries to both men.
Oliveira returns i♑n COTA but the fragility of Marquez’s injury means he misses out.
Oscar Haro, the ex-LCR sporting direct𓄧or, claims the delicate nature of the hand injury means that, if the same bone breaks again, it would sideline Marquez for four ♋months.
Marquez has posted a series of images to his social media detailing how he is rehabbing his latestꦐ injury with the caption: "Step by st𓆏ep".
He hopes to make a return in Jerez, at the fourth round of the championship, and ironically the scene🍎 of his most notorious crash which caused his serious arm injury.
Hon💜da's appeal about his double long lap penalty has a "stay of execution", the MotoGP Court of Appeal has ruled. 🌊A final decision is yet to be made.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports 🐈for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F🎐1.
