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Marquez admits he "didn't want to walk into the paddock" because he "associated it with pain"

Marc Marquez has admitted there were moments during the long succession of surgeries on his right arm when he simply did not want to set foot in the MotoGP paddock because he associated it with the pain he had endured.

Six weeks ago, Marquez underwent another operation – his seventh on the same arm in six years – this time to solve the loss of feeling and lack of connection caused by damage to the radial nerve, which had been irritated by a screw inserted during a previous procedure.

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