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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ryan Jones ‘won’t be the last’ high-profile rugby player to reveal dementia diagnosis, campaign group warns

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Players should start missing games in order to protect them from long-term brain injuries following the news that former Wales captain Ryan Jones has early-onset dementia, a leading safety campaign group for the sport has said.

The 41-year-old Jones, capped 75 times and a member of the British and Irish Lions squad on the 2005 tour of New Zealand, revealed he had received the diagnosis of probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in December last year.

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