The man has, depending on how you count, about 210 bones in the body. Motorcycle racer gives it not very, if one is broken. But after a talk with his body. “My,” said Marc Marquez, “wanted me to try it …” Well, around 100 hours after the surgery on the right upper arm back on the bike to rise and in the Moto GP Grand Prix of Andalusia in Jerez de la Frontera to participate.

Anno Hecker

editor responsible for sports.

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broken The good piece was, as the Spanish champion of the world, separated at the race a week ago involuntarily from his motorcycle. In Parallel with tumbled man and machine over the gravel bed. In the scene is made in such moments, no great difference between the driver and the fire chair. A former colleague referred to as a TV commentator on Sunday by the handle in the “tool box”, as he described the “repair” of Marquez on a specially in the Studio showcased the skeleton and on x-ray screen of his personal spare parts location documented. Screws, nails and titanium plates, as a Marquez on Tuesday installed had been.

Already, Marquez was sitting back on the machine. Immediately reported to the sports information service, was a “heroic act”, as well as the “super humans”. Anyone who has seen a motorcycle racer as a hobby footballer, think of a Kick under the rehabilitation patients. Humpel and Rumple on the field, hardly one that can go straight on. For the pain there is enough material. Against the backdrop of “external fixation”, which is a kind of rod that looks to the right and left leg to the bone after a cold deformation to remain in the race, where they should be, do the saw.

Thus, a German Grand Prix has made a Hero, at the time, the Haxe for the boots to fit and the machine could be lifted. A long time ago. Shortly after in the bone frame of the “Evel Knievel” in 38 accidents a total of 433 Times the parts of the functional musculoskeletal system burst, so eleven per Crash on average. The Americans are vulnerable as a motorcycle Stuntman, but only himself – at least most of the time. Marquez, however, in the Training and in the Qualifying round, in the circle of colleagues. Because the doctors raved about the “perfect” passing the Test.