The AFL's dilemma: How to protect players without changing the game

Australian Football League experts are raising alarms about chronic traumatic encephalopathy—or CTE—a degenerative brain condition linked to repeated head impacts. According to ABC News, while contact is fundamental to AFL, growing scientific evidence shows it poses a serious long-term threat to player health. Medical experts are calling for urgent action now to protect both current and future athletes, though the challenge remains: how to safeguard players without fundamentally changing the game itself.

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