#136. England Rugby World Cup Winner & Dementia at 40 - Steve Thompson MBE

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Steve Thompson is an England rugby legend who suffers from dementia.

Steve talks through his journey from World Cups to the life-changing impacts of rugby on his life today...

This is the Eventful Life of Mr Steve Thompson

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0:00.0	England and won the 2003 World Cup.
0:05.0	So you don't remember being at the World Cup?
0:08.0	No. You don't remember winning that final?
0:10.0	No.
0:11.0	For me now it's like there's like an empty void there for CTE.
0:15.0	On my scanners there's like big yellow slugs going for the middle and stuff.
0:19.0	And then I had a massive low
0:21.1	and I was thinking about, I had my shotguns
0:23.2	and stuff then because I was hunting
0:24.2	and I just thought, I'm just going to do myself here.
0:27.0	So you were prepared to take your own life
0:28.7	of a shotgun? Yeah.
0:31.6	Stories and stuff like that,
0:33.0	like there's people on the ear
0:34.4	about World Cup, they want to hear, stuff like that
0:36.7	and there's nothing there.
0:38.3	That World Cup medal, does that mean anything to you?
0:40.3	No.
0:41.3	There's no emotional attachment to it, nothing.
0:45.3	Actually, no, I... I was the same, no.
0:50.3	What was the same, man? so, then.
1:04.0	Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast.
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