Mystery illness
NZPA-AAP Brisbane A stricken swimming star, Duncan Armstrong, is confident a mystery illness will not stop him testing his 200 m freestyle world record at the Auckland Commonwealth Games. The 21-year-old champion Olympic gold medallist is undergoing blood tests to identify the virus which has left him drained, irritable and suffering asthma-like symptoms. It has forced him to withdraw from the the Pan Pacific championships in Tokyo next month, a serious blow to the Australian team in both individual and relay calculations.
However, he is confident it is not a recurrence of the glandular fever which hospitalised him as a nine year old and he believes he will be fit for Auckland next 'January. T'm going for more tests but it doesn’t feel like glandular fever and doctors think it’s just a respiratory virus that’s rampant at the moment,” he said. Armstrong said he would have preferred to have been able to race in Tokyo but he and the coach, lan Findlay, felt trying to train through his illness was doing more harm than good. “I was killing myself trying to get ready for Pan Paes, but now that that pressure is off I can just get some rest and get over this,” he said.
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