BREAKING NEWS: English Rugby's Controversial New Tackle Law
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Rugby Union Concussion Rates
There's no way to tackle someone with zero risk of concussion. The question is, how much risk are we willing to accept? And there's no answer. Rugby concussion is incidental to play, but the problem is to what degree is unavoidable. People say, I can Twitter, I just might as well get touched. Well, yes, you'd get the concussion or a scribe down if you did that. But you're changing the sport too much. Now some people are saying hi. Listen to Rani, that's one in the future. You've got to put that one in the parking lot.
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