Rugby

A Story About Toughness

And not American sport “tough”

This quote is from the Associated Press, 5 October 2023, about the number of game-, season-, and career-ending injuries the players in the 2023 Rugby World Cup have sustained:

Teammate Le Roux Malan dislocated his ankle and snapped his tibia in a sliding tackle against New Zealand and underwent surgery within three hours with local anaesthetic while awake.

Those twisted ankles that I suffered seem less significant now…