Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Should science on brain injury inspire a ban? (Reuters)

Boxing gloves are seen during a training session of heavyweight title holder boxer Vladimir Klitschko of Ukraine in Duesseldorf March 17, 2010. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - When Ireland's Katie Taylor was taking hits and striking blows for boxing's Olympic debut in an east London ring last year, John Hardy did not want to look. To this leading neuroscientist and molecular biologist, a boxing bout is little more than a session of mutual brain injury. He was horrified to see women boxing at Olympic level for the first time at the London 2012 Games. ...




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