Costin awaits flight home

JAMIE COSTIN was joined by family members at the KAT hospital in Athens yesterday as he awaited an air ambulance flight to Dublin for treatment on his injured back.

The Irish Olympian sustained back injuries in a traffic accident at Porto Heli as he returned to the hotel where he was staying in Ioannina, some 300 miles south of Athens, on Tuesday.

He was transferred to KAT hospital on Tuesday night where he underwent an extensive examination. The OCI chief medical officer Dr Sean Gaine persuaded Greek doctors against potential career ending surgery. The situation will instead be reassessed by Irish experts later this week.