Pundit and former
professional footballer Chris Sutton and former England rugby
player Kyran Bracken will be among those giving evidence to the
second session of the concussion
in sport inquiry. The perspective of
players on awareness and management of head trauma will be the
focus of the first two panels, hearing first-hand accounts of
brain injury from two former Team GB athletes. Dawn Astle,
campaigner and daughter of the former England footballer Jeff
Astle whose death in 2002 prompted research into the link between
heading the ball and dementia, will also give evidence.
In the final panel, MPs will question governing bodies on
their response to the available evidence on the links between
head trauma in sport and neurodegenerative disease. The Chief
Medical Officers at the FA, World Rugby and Team GB boxing and
snow sports and the chief executive of the Rugby Football Union
will be questioned on how medical research informs decisions
about the rules of their sports and care for players. Guidance
and oversight of how concussion is managed at professional,
amateur and grassroots level will also be explored.
Witnesses from
10.00
Panel
1:
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Monica Petrosino, former
Team GB ice hockey
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Eleanor Furneaux, former
Team GB skeleton bobsleigh
At approx.
10.30
Panel
2:
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Dawn Astle, Jeff Astle
Foundation
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Chris Sutton, former
professional footballer, Jeff Astle Foundation
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Professor John Fairclough,
Progressive Rugby
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Kyran Bracken, former
professional rugby player, Progressive Rugby
At approx.
11.15
Panel
3:
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Dr Charlotte Cowie, Chief
Medical Officer, Football Association
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Professor Mike Loosemore,
Chief Medical Officer, Team GB, Boxing and Snow
sports
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Dr Éanna Falvey, Chief
Medical Officer, World Rugby
-
Bill Sweeney, Chief
Executive Officer, Rugby Football Union
