Olympic Games star 'escorted to medical services' in worrying scenes in Paris... as details emerge about health battle

Aussie nationalist champion Matthew Clarke has been labelled 'brave' aft competing astatine nan Olympic Games pinch a virus.

Clarke, 29, collapsed to nan Paris way aft finishing dormant past successful nan men's 3000m steeplechase heats, intelligibly successful distress pursuing nan gruelling race.

His teammate Ben Buckingham, who besides grounded to qualify, later told Nine that Clarke had been struggling pinch a microorganism successful nan build up to his race.

'That's conscionable truthful brave. He suffered nan full measurement around, Australia's nationalist champion, Matthew Clarke, but he was wished to decorativeness present successful Paris and decorativeness he has,' Nine's Gerard Whateley said arsenic Clarke crossed nan line.

'He's now collapsed to nan track, he did good to enactment connected his feet, I suspect, nan full measurement round, arsenic he dropped further and further behind.

'But successful his ain way, that's humor and courage running.'

Whateley later disclosed that Clarke required aesculapian attraction aft nan race. 

'We're being told that he was escorted to aesculapian services aft his power and cleared for return to nan lukewarm up track, wherever he is being monitored by Australian aesculapian staff.

'So that's arsenic bully a news arsenic we could person hoped for, fixed what we each saw together.'