Fourth Aussie rules football player had CTE before deathAP, MELBOURNEA former captain of a championship-winning Australian rules football team yesterday became the fourth league player to be posthumously diagnosed with a debilitating neurological disease linked to head trauma and concussions. The Victorian Football League was the forerunner to the Australian Football League. Weideman’s family yesterday revealed the findings of the Australian Sports Brain Bank’s report. Former Richmond midfielder Tuck was assessed as having the “worst-seen case” of CTE when results were revealed by the brain bank in January. No alcohol or illicit drugs were found in his system on the day of his death and he was posthumously diagnosed with CTE.

Source: Taipei Times October 09, 2021 15:56 UTC