The dark shadow looming over contact sport
Apr 25, 2022
3 minutes
Hana Walker-Brown
Illustrated by Edward Tuckwell
“The bigger they are the harder they fall,” Lloyd Jones’s father Peter would often say about rugby players. Peter had played rugby from the age of 15 in the amateur era and was a former Neath and Llanelli back-row forward. He was a hard hitter, known for his physicality and fitness on the pitch. Peter Jones is also the first British ex-rugby player known to have died with the disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), caused by
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