Operation for top runner
NZPA-Reuter Munich David Moorcroft, Britain’s world 5000 metres record holder, is recovering in hospital after an operation which he hopes will get him back to serious running again. Moorcroft, aged 31, told Reuters that he felt fine after the operation to ease inflammation of the tendons around the lower part of the pelvis but that it was too early to make plans for the future. “But I expect it will be six to 12 months before I find out whether I can work hard again.”
Doctors said the operation was similar to that for tennis elbow but that the problem involved the muscles around the pubic bone. Moorcroft went to West Germany for the operation because the Munich surgeon, Karl Tasnady, has vast experience of the injury, which occurs frequently among West German footballers. Moorcroft, who is expected to return to Britain after 10 days of recuperation, finished last in the Olympic 5000 m final last year during a season largely wrecked by the injury.
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Press, 25 February 1985, Page 25
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