The Blues have announced today that All Blacks halfback, Piri Weepu has a hole in his heart - a possible cause of the recent mini-stroke that Weepu experienced that has ruled him out of rugby for at least 4 weeks.
Weepu will definitely require heart surgery to fix the hole, meaning his time away from rugby will be much longer than initially thought - and his career itself could be in doubt.
It is the third cardiac-related setback to afflict a rugby player in the last two months - Robbie Freuan and Buxton Popoali'i the other two - although there is absolutely no way to control and avoid such incidences from occurring as most of these are often genetic related rather than diet related.
Anyway, spare a thought and prayer for Piri and his family and hope his treatment works out well and he's back on the rugby field soon!
For now, here's the best of Piri's career.
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