Lomu's dad concerned
July 8, 2003

Jonah Lomu's father has appealed to the All Blacks winger to sit out the World Cup to aid his recovery from kidney problems.

Lomu has struggled for several years with the complaint, and after it flared again recently has been undergoing dialysis for four hours a day, three times a week, but his father Semisi wants his son to forget the World Cup and concentrate on regaining full health.


"The World Cup is not worth his life," Semisi Lomu told a New Zealand newspaper. "He needs to turn his mind off rugby and the World Cup and focus solely on getting better. He's thinking too far ahead."

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