Updated / Wednesday, 10 Feb 2021
17:45
Johnny Sexton is attended to by the Irish rugby medical team at Cardiff
The French doctor who suggested Jonathan Sexton had suffered up to 30 concussions in his rugby career has apologised to the Irish captain.
Dr Jean-Francois Chermann made the claim to French radio station RMC yesterday in the wake of Sexton being replaced during Ireland's Six Nations defeat to Wales in Cardiff.
Sexton, currently undergoing the return-to-play protocols ahead of Sunday's match against France, said today that he was "saddened and shocked" by the comments from the doctor who recommended he take a 12-week breaking from playing while with Racing Metro in 2014.