Márquez's great dilemma: meditate going under the knife for the third time

Marc Márquez could go under the knife again. The Spanish champion was this Thursday at the Ruber International Hospital in Madrid to find out if it is necessary to have surgery for the third time on his right arm and in the next few hours he could make a decision that can decisively affect his career: have surgery to heal well and be six months off or force to start the season from the first race. The image of the day was captured by Jugones cameras, when they caught the driver’s father entering the Madrid hospital. “They have not operated on him yet,” he said after being questioned about the condition of Marc Márquez’s right arm. So white and in the bottle: the MotoGP world champion is at least meditating going through the operating room to heal that humerus fracture well, after his serious fall in Jerez on July 19, and two practically consecutive operations to place paths plates and fix that humerus fracture that has not finished healing well developing pseudoatrosis (one of the most severe complications that can occur), Marc Márquez could undergo surgery again and that would entail a six-month absence period: three of immobility of the arm plus three rehab. Since the conservative treatment of the last few months has not worked, the objective of this operation would be to graft flakes from the pilot’s own hip to the humerus. In addition to leaving in the air that there will be a possible operation, Márquez’s father told the Jugones cameras that “I don’t know if they are going to operate” and that “he is watching.” He would lose at least 6 races Marc Márquez’s third operation would involve six months out and what is more important: he would rule out the Cervera driver from another world title … except for a miracle.The 2021 MotoGP World Championship is scheduled to begin on March 28 in Losail and if Márquez were out for half a year he could miss at least 6 races, that is, more than a third of the season. the estimated time out, Márquez could miss the Qatar GP (March 28), Argentine GP (April 11), Las Americas GP (April 18), Spanish GP (May 2), GP of France (May 16), Italian GP (May 30) and the Catalan GP (June 6). All this as long as the fracture in the humerus of his right arm heals perfectly, something that has not happened in the last half year. For this reason, at 27 years old and with six MotoGP titles in his pocket, Marc Márquez faces the decision more important part of his career: having surgery and healing the fracture well with the risk of losing options in the next world championship, or opting for a conservative treatment that allows him to start the next world championship but diminished the rest of his career. This is the great dilemma of Marc Márquez.