11.   Top Russian sprinter Irina Privalova may miss the entire track season following surgery to repair a torn thigh muscle, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

12.   Wakanohana will come back in Nagoya after skipping the last tournament with a torn thigh muscle.

13.   A torn thigh muscle four years on and the French emperor suddenly had no clothes.

14.   All the signs were that the Zidane option was all but ruled out as he struggled to recover from a torn thigh muscle.

15.   Cork and Illingworth had carried the bulk of the England bowling with Mark Ilott effectively out of the match with a torn thigh muscle.

16.   The reigning world and European champions must do without inspirational playmaker Zinedine Zidane, who is undergoing intensive treatment for a partially torn thigh muscle.

17.   Zidane is still not over his torn thigh muscle but Lemerre knows that defeat against Uruguay in Busan on Thursday will send his world champions packing.