Rugby star is admitted to hospital after gruelling charity challenge

FORMER Hull FC and Wakefield Wildcats star Steve Prescott has been admitted to hospital after taking part in a gruelling 48-hour charity challenge.

The 38-year-old former Super League player was taken to hospital on Monday night after completing the Engage Mutual Race to the Grand Final Quadrathon Challenge.

The challenge involved Prescott swimming, running, cycling and canoeing his way from Hull to Manchester to raise money for 
the Steve Prescott Foundation, which supports The Christie cancer hospital in Manchester and the Rugby League Benevolent Fund.

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He was reported to have experienced severe stomach pains on Sunday afternoon and was left feeling significantly drained.

Prescott, who was diagnosed with a rare form of abdominal cancer in 2006, then underwent a series of tests and it has since been established that his bowel was not functioning properly.

The former rugby full-back was given morphine to relieve the pain and is said to be responding well to treatment.

He is expected to remain in hospital for the next day or so.

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The Race to the Grand Final saw Prescott run across the Humber Bridge, swim a mile in open water and then cycle from Hull to Liverpool, where he swam the Mersey before running between Liverpool and Runcorn before canoeing up the Bridgewater Canal to Old Trafford in Manchester.

On his sponsorship page, he said: “I have to say I am more scared about this event than any other.”

For details or to donate to Steve’s Foundation, visit www.justgiving.com/StevePrescott1.