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10th February 2021
01:56pm GMT

"Of course it is not a good thing if someone is concussed, that he was knocked out and took several blows to the head.
"We are beginning to learn a little about the damage that can happen later in one's life. After all that, though, nobody else can speak for him. We do not know what he has exactly. Maybe he just took a blow to the head and everything is fine. This whole procedure is a delicate matter. "Personally if I had been knocked out or taken a heavy blow to the head I would give up my place for the game this weekend. But it is not for me to answer in the place of someone else. He (Sexton) will reply for everybody and we will see this weekend."
There was also the matter of a feature interview with the doctor, Jean-François Chermann, that advised Sexton, back in late 2014, to sit out for 12 weeks after he was concussed twice in a short period of time.
Following that, Jean Chazal, who worked with the French rugby union until 2018, told RMC that, "Sexton collapsed as a boxer who has received a violent uppercut."
At this afternoon's press briefing, Sexton fired back at the coverage, particularly in France. He commented:
"I'm pretty saddened and shocked by the inaccurate reports that were thrown out yesterday [about concussion]. We've been here before... to me it is completely inappropriate."
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