Rugby, a sport on borrowed time: concussions, early dementia, investigation into a “game that will die if it doesn’t change”

2023-09-26 12:09:08

Our series “Rugby, a sport on borrowed time”

For years, the debate on concussions and player health has agitated the microcosm without ever getting to the bottom of things. Even if this awareness has led to a change in the rules, a tightening of sanctions for head impacts, in recent years there have been serious accidents, premature career terminations, cases of early dementia… and even dead. Independent writer and journalist Ludovic Ninet, author of “Petit Éloge du rugby” and “The Cécillon Affair: Chantal, story of feminicide”, investigated for months. Le Parisien – Today in France exclusively delivers the fruit of this investigative work in a fascinating four-episode series.

Investigation into a sport “which will die if it does not change” Carl Hayman: “One day, it will explode and it will be huge” After the concussions, the nightmare… (to be published Wednesday September 27)Nicolas Chauvin, this death which no longer seems to bother anyone (to be published Wednesday September 27)

Since Thursday, September 21, there has been a lot of talk about the bones of Antoine Dupont, and much less about his brain. But what would have happened to the latter without the maxillo-zygomatic shield? Porridge? The French captain can thank his bumper. The hope that he would play again as quickly as possible nevertheless made us forget that his brain was violently shaken, thrown forward to crash against his skull before going backwards to crash again against his skull. cranial.