Discussing the issue of contact sports and the threat to sports men and women of all ages, particularly in the light of the recent death, just last month, of a 17-year-old French woman after a head collision on the rugby field, FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with Dr Daniel H Daneshvar, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He says that "there's not such thing as safe" in contact sports, explaining that "if you get a lot of repeated hits to the head, then you're at risk for problems later in life, both in the near term and the long term".
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