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Why Marc Marquez Collapsed After His Le Mans MotoGP Crash: “I’m Racing with One and a Half Arms”

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Marquez had a secret plan to undergo surgery on his injured shoulder following the Catalunya GP. However, after his Le Mans crash, the Spaniard broke down explaining that he could not ride

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Marc Márquez's body has endured up to 14 surgical interventions in his two decades in the elite of motorcycling. Nine of them in the right arm: eight since it became his biggest nightmare after his infausive accident in Spain's GP of 2020, which led him away from the fight for the championship. But his last visit to the operating room, last Sunday, has rescued from oblivion a previous surgery in the same extremity. The story is rocky and made th…

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Marc Márquez could not hide his emotion (captured by the DAZN cameras) when he announced his physical reality after the accident of the Le Mans sprint. Then, and already in Madrid, the champion went through the operating room and will face a recovery process where feeling like a pilot again is the objective. He can drive, for example, a cross bike. But the MotoGP is another movie. One that has prevented him from yielding 100%, although with phys…

·Barcelona, Spain
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In seven years the Spanish champion has worked ten times. The accident after the fall in Le Mans is the last episode of a career marked by talent and fragility. The obstinacy, and here the parallelism with Mick Doohan comes natural, has always pushed him back to the saddle even at the cost of burning the stages, without sacrificing his style of reckless driving

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Marc Marquez has finally revealed the secret nerve injury that hampered his performance in MotoGP 2026, requiring emergency surgery after Le Mans.

A video released by Ducati Lenovo this week shows how MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez confessed to his crew the planned intervention on his right shoulder.

= Ducati Team rider Marc Marquez has opened up about his heartbreak following his crash during the French Grand Prix MotoGP race. In a moment of vulnerability, he explained that he is not only battling the competition, but he is doing so with an almost disabled arm. After suffering a fractured right shoulder in a crash last season, Marquez underwent multiple surgeries, including a seventh following his recent crash. Despite his pre-season recove…

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Marca broke the news in Barcelona, Spain on Wednesday, May 13, 2026.
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