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Concussion in sport: Why is boxing still allowed?

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With safety protocols in elite sport back under the spotlight due to recent high profile cases in rugby and football, the Times' Chief Sports Writer, Matt Dickinson, did some soul searching around one of the most brutal of all sports he covers: boxing. 


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Guest:

Matt Dickinson - The Times' chief sports writer.


Host: David Aaronovitch. 


Clips used: Sky Sports Boxing, BBC Sounds, SamuraiLifeTV YouTube.

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Perhaps a dozen times a year I either switch on the television to watch boxing at home or pack up my laptop to cover a big fight.

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And my wife says,

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how can you watch that brutality,

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