This was to be the weekend that Spencer Smith started his Ironman campaign with a reasonable chance of taking the Ironman South Africa event - although Lothar Leder was always going to be an interesting threat. But anyone who logged onto the World of Endurance website that's covering the event would have been greeted by the headlines that he has been rushed to hospital with suspected septicaemia, a blood infection that's possibly linked to meningitis.

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