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Márquez: ‘This surgery wasn’t for pleasure – this is to win’
Can you imagine Marc Márquez living a calm life? The series is a whirl of racetracks, team meetings, team dinners, surgeons, consultations rooms, hospital wards, gyms full of torture gear, training on bicycles, training on motorbikes, private jets, hanging with his gang at the brothers’ Le Corbusier-style mansion in Madrid and lots of pain and moments of dark thoughts. After the fourth operation on his arm, in June last year, he’s wheeled out of surgery, still drugged up to the eyeballs, with all his power gone, his fire extinguished, like Samson shorn of his locks. He lies there weak, like you’ve never seen him, defeated like you’ve never seen him,…
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NASCAR star Elliott has leg surgery after snowboard accident
NASCAR superstar Chase Elliott had successful surgery for an unspecified injury to his left leg Friday night, hours after a snowboarding accident in Colorado. He will miss this weekend’s NASCAR race at Las Vegas. Team owner Rick Hendrick told The Associated Press that Elliott was “just out of surgery” and “it went well.” Hendrick gave no additional details about Elliott’s condition or the accident. Hendrick is NASCAR’s winningest car owner and Elliott is NASCAR’s most popular driver. Josh Berry will drive the No. 9 Chevrolet on Sunday in place of Elliott. Elliott would need a waiver from NASCAR to be eligible for this year’s playoffs because he’s missing a race.…
