Tennis star Federer forced to withdraw
Posted: January 7th, 2008 - 8:17am by Ben Chapman
The BBC reports today that defending Australian Open champion Roger Federer has been forced to withdraw from the Kooyong Classic in Melbourne after coming down with a stomach illness. Maybe Federer has been fraternizing with one of the estimated hundreds of thousands of Brits who have Norovirus.
I think I had noro back in November.
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