MotoGP's GOAT: Márquez's remarkable comeback yields title No. 7

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Marc Márquez won his seventh MotoGP world championship on Sunday in Japan. Gold & Goose Photography/Getty Images"I said when I went to the doctors, 'Let me know if we have a solution. If not, I will retire.'"

These are the words of Marc Márquez to ESPN in 2023, when he was a six-time MotoGP world champion, about the arm injury that nearly ended his career. His brother, who is on course to finish runner-up in the 2025 MotoGP championship, Alex Márquez, thought that his older sibling would retire during the two-year period he spent searching for a cure for his fractured, infected and malrotated humerus.

Now, 2,185 days, four complicated surgeries, two teams and one…