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Pamela Nimmo victimized by long air flights

Hospitalized for pulmonary embolism - squash world wishes her well

SCOT NIMMO FORCED OUT OF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Scottish champion Pamela Nimmo has withdrawn from this month's National Squash Championships after being rushed to hospital for treatment for pulmonary embolisms (blood clots on her lungs) caused by lengthy long-haul flights.

The 23-year-old world No17 from Edinburgh, seeded in the Nationals for the first time this year, has been suffering with breathing difficulties over the past month, during which time she has twice flown across the Atlantic and back to play tournaments and exhibition matches in North America.

"After feeling progressively worse over the past two weeks, she came home to Edinburgh to see her GP," said father John Nimmo. "Fortunately, he recognised the symptoms immediately, and within the hour Pam was being treated in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary - where she is now expected to remain for at least two weeks. "Tests show that Pam has been surviving on little more than half an effective lung," added Mr Nimmo.

"Her doctors say that the fact that she has been able to play squash at the level she has in recent weeks is a testament to her supreme fitness, without which she would have been in serious trouble." Pam Nimmo, who is likely to be out of action for 2-3 months, was the local star in the 2000 Women's World Open Squash Championships, which were staged in Edinburgh for the first time last November at Meadowbank Stadium.

The 2001 National Squash Championships will take place in Manchester from 21st February, with action from the quarter-finals onwards staged on the all-glass court at the Manchester Velodrome, the National Cycling Centre, from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th February. Manchester's world No18 Vicky Botwright moves to Nimmo's position in the draw (becoming the new eighth seed and taking on Yorkshire's Cheryl Beaumont), whilst Middlesex's Dominique Lloyd-Walter moves into the main draw in the position vacated by Botwright (to face 2nd seed Fiona Geaves).