The British & Irish Lions are sweating on the fitness of Wales prop Gethin Jenkins ahead of Saturday's tour opener against the Barbarians in Hong Kong.
Jenkins is struggling with a calf strain which he sustained during Toulon's Heineken Cup final win over Clermont and is a doubt for their game on Saturday. The injury is not expected to keep the Welsh loose-head out of their second match, which comes against the Western Force next week.
The squad have now touched down in Hong Kong ahead of the Barbarians match, with Jenkins their only injury concern.
"It's three or four days before he's probably up and running," Lions boss Warren Gatland. "He's had ongoing problems with his calf for a long, long time but the physios are confident he'll be available for the second or the third game so it shouldn't hamper him too much."
The news of the near clean-bill-of-health for the Lions will come as a welcome boost to Gatland, who had a number of his 37-man squad in action over the weekend in both the Aviva Premiership and RaboDirect PRO12 finals. Bar Dylan Hartley, who will miss the tour due to an 11-week suspension he picked up for the red card he sustained in the Premiership final, Gatland has all of the squad he originally picked at his disposal for the forthcoming tour.
Gatland added: "The players that are coming into the squad are battle-hardened. That's great, particularly the Leinster and Leicester players coming from two winning sides with that confidence.
"On the other hand, a lot of the Welsh players have had two weeks together as well and we've trained them pretty hard, we've got them up to a level of intensity, expectation and game awareness and game understanding. It'll be interesting to see between the two sets of players who hits the ground running the best.
"I think the Australian media and some ex-players have tried to play down our ability but I think they just don't know enough about us. But when they get out there and they see some of the athletes we've got, some of the skill and size and pace, I think they're going to be impressed and they're going to realise it's going to be a tough series."