MotoGP rider Marc Marquez has finally been released from hospital today, 10 days after undergoing an eight-hour operation to repair the damage to his right arm sustained at Jerez in July.
The eight-time world champion has spent the past days in Madrid’s Hospital Ruber Internacional after being diagnosed with an infection in the bone of his right humerus.
“Marc Marquez’s progress after the surgery performed on December 3 and the start of antibiotic therapy has been deemed satisfactory by his medical team,” the team confirmed. “Today he has been discharged from the Hospital Ruber Internacional to continue his recovery at home, where he will continue with the specific antibiotic treatment.”
The Honda rider badly broke his right arm at the season-opening Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez in late July, necessitating surgery to install a first titanium plate onto the humerus bone.
Subsequently attempting a return to action only five days later, he stressed the injury to the point of significantly aggravating it, prompting a second surgery and extending the timeline for his return into months rather than days.
Prior to the bone grafting operation earlier this month, it looked likely that he was set to have been prescribed at least 12 weeks of limited movement with the arm before beginning an extensive period of rehabilitation and physiotherapy.
However, that timeline might now have been lengthened even further, thanks to the treatment needed to ensure that he successfully fights the infection in his arm.
With the opening round of the 2021 MotoGP season now only 14 weeks away (and the first test of the year five weeks before then) Marquez will face a race against time to be fully fit in time to attempt to reclaim the title that Suzuki rider Joan Mir took from him.
