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Barr forced to withdraw due to illness

7 August 2017

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Barr forced to withdraw due to illness

Thomas Barr (Ferrybank) has been forced to withdraw from tonight's semi-final at the IAAF World Championships in London due to a vomiting bug.

The Waterford star is bitterly disappointed to be forced to withdraw from the championships and said: "I'm gutted to have to withdraw from today's semi final. I wasn't feeling great yesterday evening and later in the night I was hit with a bad bout of gastroenteritis.

"My whole year has been focused on the World Championships. The support yesterday was just brilliant and to not be able to go out and compete today for Ireland is beyond disappointing."