British long jumper Greg Rutherford won’t skip the Summer Olympics in Rio over concerns of the Zika virus, but a certain part of him will stay back in freezer.
His partner, Susie Verrill, detailed in Standard Issue magazine this week why she and their son, Milo, won’t be in Brazil. She also disclosed that the couple has decided to freeze Rutherford’s sperm.
“We’d love to have more children and with research in its infancy, I wouldn’t want to put myself in a situation which could have been prevented,” Verrill wrote. “Specialists still also don’t know the ins and outs of Zika, so even though it looks as though there’s no real issues should Milo get bitten, it’s just another thing we don’t want to chance.