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Marquez Diagnosed With
Fresh Case Of Diplopia
M
arc Marquez's brutal high-
side in warm-up for the In-
donesian MotoGP last week has
caused another case of diplopia
(double vision).
The Spaniard suffered a con-
cussion in the crash which later
caused the diplopia, which is
worryingly the third time Marquez
has suffered the injury in his
career. He was ruled out of the
end of the 2021 season with the
injury after crashing an enduro
bike while training, and Repsol
Honda is unable to comment
on when the eight-time World
Champion will be able to return
to racing action.
"The MotoGP medical team
confirmed that Marquez suffered
a concussion and several minor
traumas before being transferred
to the hospital in Mataram, the
capital of the island of Lombok
(Indonesia), where he under-
went a more exhaustive medical
examination and a CT scan in
which major injuries were ruled
out. As a precaution, the Mo-
toGP medical team together with
the Repsol Honda Team jointly
decided that Marc Marquez
would not take part in the Indo-
nesian race.
"During the journey back to
Spain, Marc Marquez began
to experience discomfort with
his vision and upon his arrival in
Barcelona on Monday, he had an
emergency visit to the Hospital
Clínic de Barcelona with his trust-
ed ophthalmologist, Dr. Sánchez
Dalmau, who after an examina-
tion confirmed a relapse in the
diplopia that the rider suffered
last November.
"This morning (March 22),
the Spanish rider visited his
medical team, led by Dr. Samuel
Antuña, at the Ruber Internacio-
nal Hospital in Madrid, where
Marquez underwent a general
medical check-up to evaluate all
the bruises caused by the crash
and a brain MRI. This has recon-
firmed that he did not suffer any
other injuries."
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Marc Marquez is seeing double yet
again. There's no word on when
he'll return to MotoGP.
