The agony of Marc Marquez - “like a hammer hitting you…”

The Repsol Honda star came through a career-threatening arm s༒urgery last summer and showed rays of lights at the back end ofꦯ 2022, to suggest.
A documentary released ahead of this season showed Marquez’s personal turmoil and his painsta🐻king comeback.
“Sacrifice is a good word 🥃to describe the situation,” he said.
“If you want something, you must say no to🅘 many things.
“I was li🐻ving in my hometown but I moved to Madrid because the physios and doctors were here.
“I said no ꧙to my friends and family.🐭 I changed completely my life.
“This is for one target - to win again.
“Not just to be a ‘good’ rider.
“L💫ast winter I was working in a good way then, at the first race, ‘bang’ another injury.”

Marquez, in the very first sprint race at Portimao, clattered into Miguel Oli𒀰veira, injuring them both.
He required surgery on a han𒀰d, and missed three rounds.
“It is like a hammer hitting you,” he said.
“But you must continue. Keep going.
“That’s wh𒀰at I did. I came back ꦿat Le Mans, and had a good weekend.
“But with one-and-a-half la🌟ps to finish th༺e race, I crashed.
“Another hammer hitting you.
“We will have another opportunity. Each time, it ꦍis c🍌loser and closer.”
Marquez has yet to complete a grand prix in 2023.
His problems have only worsened - at the Sachsenring, usually 🦋among his favourite cꦡircuits, he crashed five times before Sunday’s race and was forced to pull out.
A week later, he rushed a comeback to Assen 🐟but again pulled out of the grand𝓡 prix, not having recovered enough.
M♒arquez is 19th in the MotoGP standings with his hopes of a seventh premier class championship gone for at least a year.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for ﷽a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.