A MAN has been rushed to hospital in a 'critical condition' after collapsing at Winchester Sport & Leisure Park.

The man is believed to have collapsed while playing squash at the centre earlier this afternoon (May 12).

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An air ambulance carrying a specialist team arrived on the scene - who then travelled by road with the man to Southampton General Hospital.

Once he had been handed over the helicopter subsequently flew to the hospital to pick up the team and return them to their Thruxton base.

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