Campbell quarantined with bug

DAVID CAMPBELL’S participation in the world championships in Osaka was in the balance last night after he was quarantined from the other members of the Irish team with what Dr Bill Cuddihy, the team doctor, described as a viral tummy bug.

Dr Cuddihy, whose daughter, Joanne, broke the Irish 400m record later in the day, said the Maynooth man, who is scheduled to compete in the 800m heats on Thursday, came down to the track to train on Sunday night and had quite a bad episode of diarrhoea.

“When he came back up to the hotel he was quite weak and his temperature was quite high,” he said. “I arranged with the organisers to go down to a local emergency room where he was treated, got IV fluids, had bloods taken and then rest.