Marc Marquez sees double: new stop for the champion, career at risk
"A deja vu" for the champion, who has already had this problem, now exacerbated after the terrible accident in Indonesia
There is no peace for Marc Marquez. The MotoGP champion is forced back into the pits after the terrible crash that prevented him from competing in Indonesia.
The Honda Spaniard had recently recovered from a long series of injuries that have blocked and slowed him over the past two years, stopping an amazing streak of six World Championships in seven seasons.
But now the diplopia is back, a vision disorder that forces him to see double: from the first tests done as soon as he returned to Barcelona it seems that the worsening of the disease was caused by the very bad off-track in the warm-up at the Mandalika circuit.
A stop that certainly jeopardizes his ambitions for 2022, but for the most pessimistic, it can also jeopardize the continuation of their career. Already during the return trip to Spain - explains the Honda team - Marquez began to experience visual discomfort and on his arrival in Barcelona on Monday he made an emergency visit to the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona with his trusted ophthalmologist, Dr. Sanchez. Dalmau, who after an examination confirmed a relapse of diplopia, a problem the pilot had already faced last November.
"The neuro-ophthalmological evaluation carried out on Marc Marquez on Monday after the head injury that took place at the Indonesian Grand Prix - explained Sanchez Dalmau - shows a new episode of diplopia caused by a recurrence of the paralysis of the fourth right nerve, with less involvement than to that which occurred in the injury of November 2021. After this examination, it was initially decided to follow a conservative treatment with periodic medical tests. Next week, Marc Marquez will undergo a new check to evaluate the evolution of the injury and predict the estimated recovery period to return to the competition ”.
“It seems that I am experiencing deja vu”, Marquez tweeted, “during the trip back to Spain I started to feel discomfort with my sight and we decided to meet Dr. Sánchez Dalmau, who confirmed a new episode of diplopia ".
“Fortunately it is less serious than the injury I had at the end of last year - confirms the champion -. But now is the time to rest and wait to see how the injury will evolve. As always, thank you very much to all of you for your support ”.
(Unioneonline / L)
