"I had a dream career until 2020," Marc Marquez told ESPN, recalling his decorated time in MotoGP, the two-wheeled equivalent of Formula One. "And then overnight, and for the next two years, it was a nightmare."
Before we get into the nightmare: the dream. Marquez is unquestionably among the three or four most talented riders to ever grace the sport. He is, an argument could be made, the greatest of all time.
By the time he was 19, he'd won two world championships in the series' junior classes. His rookie season in MotoGP, he became its youngest-ever world champion at 20 years and 63 days.