Coe flies home for medical test

Press, 13 September 1982, Page 23

Coe flies home for medical test

NZPA London Sebastian Coe flew home from the European athletic championships in Athens on Friday and went straight to hospital for glandular fever tests which will determine whether he will enter the Commonwealth Games at Brisbane. At Heathrow Airport, looking pale and tired. Coe said. “I don't know what it is. There are lumps and bumps in my neck and I have been feeling under the weather for 10 days. "It started before I ran the 800 metres. I felt a bit under par. Now the lumps and bumps have come up and I was told by the team’s medical officer to come home as quickly as possible. Apart from anything else I don't

want to pass on any infection to the rest of the team." Coe. who was second in the 800 metres, said. “It is a disappointing ending. I just ran out of time. I had a fewproblems before going to Athens. "It certainly seems like some glandular problem and whether I go to Brisbane depends on the tests in London. Of course, I want to go." His father. Mr Peter Coe, said. “We have a letter from the doctor in Athens but I don't know what it says. Sebastian's plans for the rest of the season hinge on what the London doctors say.” Coe would not say where he was going, although he was believed to be heading for Charing Cross Hospital.