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Article: Wasp sting leaves Roe looking the bee's knees.
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- Daily Mail (London)
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- September 22, 2001
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Byline: ALAN FRASER
HOLDING his left arm across his chest as he walked, as if in a sling, Mark Roe yesterday proved that it was literally possible to be stung into action.
Roe suffered a reaction to being stung by a wasp towards the end of his first round in the Lancome Trophy the previous day, not least by picking up birdies in his final two holes.
The Englishman returned to the Saint-Nom-la-Breteche course with a wrist three times its normal size to produce a second successive five-under-par 66.
He would have been an unlikely leader at the halfway stage even without the venomous attack since his preoccupation this year has been more ...