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MotoGP Champion's Right Arm Only Operating at Around 50%, According to His Surgeon

If Marc Marquez has another great talent outside of riding a motorcycle, it's keeping the media and public from knowing his true physical state. A case in point was when he crashed at the French GP this April, breaking his fifth metatarsal, which required surgery to fix; the fact that he needed surgery meant he could reveal to the world that he'd been planning to have surgery on his right shoulder anyway due to a screw in his shoulder pressing on the radial nerve.

Now, his surgeon, Dr. Samuel Antuña, has spoken to El Periodico and given us insight into how his right arm is functioning.

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