Marquez: third operation finds bone infection
Eight-time world champ reveals details about his season-ending injuryRepsol Honda has released a statement confirming former MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez is undergoing "specific antibiotic treatment" after doctors found evidence of a previous infection during a third operation on his non-healing fracture.
Before the surgery on Thursday, December 3, the eight-time world champ admitted his decision to re-turn to the track so soon after breaking his arm was the wrong one, suggesting some of the blame needs to be put on doctors who agree to riders' unrealistic hopes.
Speaking during an interview with sports-streaming channel DAZN, the Spaniard revealed he wouldn't have returned so soon had he been made aware of the risks.
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"The plate broke when I opened a sliding door in the garden of my house, but it didn’t break there – it broke because of all the stress that was generated in Jerez, it was a mistake," he admitted.
"After the first operation I asked when can I get back on the bike. The doctor must know how to slow down the rider's soul get him to be realistic. I went to Jerez with the certainty that everything would be fine, because they told me. If I had been told that the plate could have broken, I would not have got on a bike.
"In the second operation they had to do a bone graft, a practice that involves the risk that it will not be accepted by the body or accepted slowly," he said, a condition Honda confirmed in its release when it named the third procedure as 'pseudarthrosis surgery'. Pseudarthrosis, or nonunion, occurs when a fracture fails to heal.
Marquez confirmed he'll not make the same mistake again, saying he won't return until he is 100 per cent fit.
"I will have to be ready, and with my body ready to take the same risks. It's my DNA, the way I have always raced to get what I got."
It's not clear at this stage whether he'll be fully recovered in time for the planned 2021 season opener in Qatar, slated for Sunday, March 28.
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