{"id":4994,"date":"2024-09-24T14:11:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/oilie-griffiths-dragons-and-wales-back-row-undergoing-spinal-tumour-treatment\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T14:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:11:17","slug":"oilie-griffiths-dragons-and-wales-back-row-undergoing-spinal-tumour-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/oilie-griffiths-dragons-and-wales-back-row-undergoing-spinal-tumour-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"OIlie Griffiths: Dragons and Wales back row undergoing spinal tumour treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dragons have revealed their Wales back row forward Ollie Griffiths is undergoing medical treatment after being diagnosed with a tumour on his spine.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh rugby region say his condition &#8220;requires intervention&#8221; and he &#8220;is unavailable for selection for the foreseeable future as he undergoes medical treatment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Dragons statement read: &#8220;The 29-year-old, who has played 105 times for the Men of Gwent, has decided alongside the club to make this announcement to clarify his availability, having already told his team-mates, coaches, and staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ollie is now undergoing treatment that is being reviewed monthly, he remains fit and well, and he is looking forward to returning to full health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ckg2r8g9490o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragons have revealed their Wales back row forward Ollie Griffiths is undergoing medical treatment after being diagnosed with a tumour on his spine. The Welsh rugby region say his condition &#8220;requires intervention&#8221; and he &#8220;is unavailable for selection for the foreseeable future as he undergoes medical treatment&#8221;. A Dragons statement read: &#8220;The 29-year-old, who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}