Fox out of tour
NZPA Toulouse The test reserve, Grant Fox, will not play again on the All Blacks’ rugby tour of France after falling ill at the test match at Toulouse yesterday. The 24-year-old Auckland first five-eighths is suffering from internal bleeding apparently as a result of a tackle in the mid-week match at Bayonne. The injury was at first thought to be an old back complaint and Fox trained with the All Blacks later in
the week, but he complained of feeling ill at a mayoral reception after yesterday’s test match.
When he was taken to hospital it was found one of his lungs was half-filled with blood.
The team doctor, David Laing, said yesterday that the lung had been drained “and Grant is very much on the way to recovery.” “He will be in hospital for two or three more days and so there is no chance he will play during the last week of the tour.”
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