Marquez Must Reduce Risk To Break Rossi's Record

Keshav said:

Okay - this is not exactly front page news. But apparently he did damage to the shoulder qualifying in Sepang and has banged it up badly enough during testing in Jerez, that Kropo posted on his site with the headline:

UPDATE: Marc Marquez To Have Surgery On Dislocated Right Shoulder.

Then went on to say Marquez is going to a hospital in Barcelona today to have the shoulder looked at.

I reckon he can manage a 9th even with the bum shoulder. But 10 is a stretch.

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povol said:

Yep, he has to use a different strategy besides pushing till you crash to find limits. It may slow his win total but unless he has complications, no one currently can beat him on a season. His record after returning from surgery is other worldly. In 14 he missed most of testing with a broken leg and wins the first ten races of the year. In 19, following serious shoulder surgery, he has the most dominant season maybe ever. He has 7 BMW’s , so don’t risk the career to get poles, anywhere top 3-4 will work. He must make changes or he could be done by 30

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Keshav said:

Damage was as bad as suspected. Marquez's surgery is completed. Look forward to another season of announcers mentioning it every five minutes to heighten the excitement (or lack of it) during the dull parts of any given race.

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Keshav said:

Okay - I'll bite, what's that mean?

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320Dave said:

It's when there was a famous broken Yellow femur or tibia or something like that 2 years ago and the commentators just kept yapping about how heroic the guy was.

When asked about the X-rays they were "stolen" so he couldn't prove the broken bone.

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michaelm said:

There wasn’t much in the way of doubt about the compound tibial fracture he sustained in 2009 which didn’t require an X-ray to diagnose, and while I am obviously not a fan of him because of his off-track machinations, the hate campaigns against his rivals he orchestrates in particular, he did come back from that injury fairly ridiculously early in terms of what would be expected for a common man, and was sufficiently unperturbed by it to win a race.

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320Dave said:

Depuniet Randy broke the same that same year riding the playboy bike, came back sooner than Rossi and nobody mentioned .....

I will hate Rossi until my heart is content. AKA never.

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michaelm said:

I am not a million miles away from you on Valentino, since 2015 anyway when much that was hidden became obvious; I had blamed his crazy fans, which doesn't necessarily include all his fans, up until then.

That 2010 tibial fracture was no joking matter however, a compound fracture sufficiently violent to break through the skin. His leathers contained it and saved the fracture from being contaminated allowing primary closure only a few days later, and given that there was no complication, and no infection in particular, resulted in a subsequent recovery probably not much different than De Puniet's. It was still a gruesome injury though, and the sangfroid involved in him returning and winning a race only a few races later while not making him unique on the grid was rather impressive by any criterion, even for me however far removed from being a fan of his I might be.

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320Dave said:

That's fair, you are being fair.

Rossi has never been fair and I enjoy being a .... towards him for that same reason.

I couldn't care less if he came back in greed with a recently broken leg only to try and mess with Jorge to prove a point.

That last lap overtake at Catalunya was also a piece of .... move as he blocked Lorenzo to the inside and made him stay there otherwise they would touch and possibly crash messing with Jorge's championship battle.

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moto vudu said:

You've never been a .... towards him, he doesn't even know you exist. The only person your feelings are impacting is you.

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moto vudu said:

You've never been a .... towards him, he doesn't even know you exist. The only person your feelings are impacting is you.

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moto vudu said:

You've never been a .... towards him, he doesn't even know you exist. The only person your feelings are impacting is you.

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320Dave said:

He drove past me once in Montmelo and I waived my fist at him so technically he does know I exist?

I know though I am being a hater & not a .....

I do however know I can ruffle some yellow feathers with a half assed try anywhere on the internet though haha.

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Little Walter said:

For that matter, how can we be certain that YOU exist? You could be a Russian Troll-Bot for all we know.

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michaelm said:

The same applies in spades to his fans of the variety who joined the campaigns of vilification against his rivals which he orchestrated of course, many more than those with the opposing inclination over most of his career.

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moto vudu said:

You've never been a .... towards him, he doesn't even know you exist. The only person your feelings are impacting is you.

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moto vudu said:

Are you sure he saw that fist wave?




Russians wouldn't program a bot to troll this forum, their bot would troll politcal forums hoping to influence elections.



You overestimate the ability of a sports team or sports figure to control their fans. There have been killings at soccer matches, do you believe a team or player orchestrated it? People are tribal by nature, when they like a particular team, athlete/racer, many of them will start to hate the rivals. Rossi doesn't tell his fan anything, they act on their own free will.

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