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The CTE sports wall of denial is crumbling

Leading neurologist's actions in the spotlight, PLUS: A busy The Week That Was and Weekend That Will Be.

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Dylan Cleaver
Mar 04, 2022
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This was a very, very bad week for the branches of Big Sport that have spent years trying to downplay and in some cases even deny the links between chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and the head trauma received while playing their games.

The guiding light of this movement, Paul McCrory, an Australian consultant neurologist and former AFL…

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