Marc Marquez has already set a date for returning to the bike

MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquezis one of the stars of the 20th COE Gala in Madrid, where the Spanish Olympic Committee honors the best Spanish athletes of the year, an event presented by Olympians Lydia Valentín and Saul Claviotto.

If you collect the “Heart of Spain” award, Marc Marquez He explained how he has been recovering from the right shoulder injury he sustained at Mandalika, just a week after becoming MotoGP World Champion at Motegi, which resulted in multiple visits to the operating room.

“I’m back from another injury. I just finished the championship and got injured again in the next race on another rider’s trip. I’ve been recovering for three months. On Sunday, after three months, I was told that in three months the bone will be welded. So next week I’ll start feeling the gas,” Marc announced. Four days ago, he had already returned to mountain bike training with his younger brother Alex.

The Cervera graduate also served as an impromptu interviewer for the COE president. alejandro blancoAnd with his usual friendliness, he stole the show. “My grandfather always told me, when you talk to the white-haired guy (about the swings), listen and listen. And following his advice, I would like to know how he envisions the future of Spanish sport, or how you would like it to be.”

Blanco then explained, “First of all, you have to win five more World Championships,” to which Marc replied, “It’s easy!” and added, “Your brother is competing there, and Iris (Tio) is already the true queen of artistic swimming. “All the players here continue to win, that Lidia (Valentin) continues to be the standard in the world as an athlete as ever, and that she continues to teach us, and I can’t say anything about Saul.” (Claviotto), it depends on what he wants. You showed that there are no limits in Spanish sport if we can work together, have the same objectives and follow the same path, and some athletes have given us a lesson with your remarks. Marc would like to believe that the best in the sport is yet to come.