Rory McIlroy ready for Rio: ‘If I do contract Zika, it's not the end of the world’

McIlroy says his concerns about competing in the Olympics this year have eased.

World number three Rory McIlroy says his concerns about competing in the Olympics this year due to the ongoing threat of the Zika virus have eased.

McIlroy is set to represent Ireland in Rio as golf returns to the Games for the first time since 1904, but revealed last month he was monitoring the situation in Brazil following his engagement to Erica Stoll and Zika's links to defects in newborn babies.