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WORLD Rugby’s strict crackdown on high tackles at last year’s World Cup resulted in a dramatic reduction in the incidence of concussions, the sport’s governing body says.
Statistics released by World Rugby show there was an overall drop of 28 per cent in concussion incidence at the 2019 World Cup compared to the 2018 elite competition average.
Most encouragingly for World Rugby, the body’s data shows a 37 per cent reduction in tackle concussion incidence at the World Cup, with the tackle having previously been shown to be most heavily linked ...