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There is concern over late, adverse brain health outcomes associated with contact sports participation, with high neurodegenerative disease risk reported in studies of former American football [[3], [8]], soccer [[9], [16]] and rugby union players [[15]]. Nevertheless, our observation that CTE pathology is present in around two-thirds of former rugby union players examined is in line with experience reporting neuropathological findings in other series of former contact sports athletes, including former American footballers and soccer players [[7], [13]]. In parallel, autopsy studies of former athletes from a range of contact sports describe a frequent finding of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neuropathology uniquely associated with prior history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and repetitive head impact (RHI) exposure [[7], [12]-[14]]. [Extracted from the article]