damage to some of the players on the pitch. that may be the case too in other high impact sports like american football. my sports like american football. my guesss today are steve thompson and his wife steph. he is a former england rugby international who won the world cup in 2003. he has recently learned that he has early onset dementia. seemingly linked to years of high impact collisions. what happens when the game simply isn t worth it? steve a nd steve and steph thompson, welcome to hardtalk. if i may, i want to begin with that moment when you were diagnosed. an elite former sportsman, rugby player, told that you had early onset dementia. for both of you, i imagine, that was an extraordinary moment. steve, what was your feeling at that time. , , ., time. er, belief, i must admit, at first. time. er, belief, i must admit, at first so time. er, belief, i must admit, at first. so many time. er, belief, i must admit, at first. so many things - time. er, belief, i must ad
can t remember being in australia having a coffee. with ben cohen and lewis moody, they were showing me pictures, we were showing me pictures, we were in coffee shops together and things like that. there s nothing there, like it never happened. people say, how do you feel and stuff? i feel like a pony. i ve said to you a few times, haven t i? it annoys me a lot about myself, it brought so much to so many people. i feel like a phoney. but i feel like i am rude to people because it s just like, like i am rude to people because it sjust like, no. i don t get any tingling, any happiness about it at all. does it, in a sense, happiness about it at all. does it, in a sense, make happiness about it at all. does it, in a sense, make it - happiness about it at all. does it, in a sense, make it seem i it, in a sense, make it seem like your entire rugby career was a waste of time? you can t remember it, and obviously we are making the link between what happened on the rugby field to you and
i think we cancel people, often times, too willy-nilly. we should save the canceling for the worst, most heinous of people. is it happiness that kim kardashian is the most evolved person in our society? [laughter] they do suck everything in in the right places, so i am grateful for her doing that, creating that. the videotape too, that is a winner for me. [laughter] i guarantee you that if the cancel policy came for her, she would be the first person to say i m sorry that my contacts, my comments might have been hurtful to some people. i retract what i said. when they come for her, she is
i think we cancel people, often times, too willy-nilly. we should save the canceling for the worst, most heinous of people. is it happiness that kim kardashian is the most evolved person in our society? [laughter] they do suck everything in in the right places, so i am grateful for her doing that, creating that. the videotape too, that is a winner for me. [laughter] i guarantee you that if the cancel policy came for her, she would be the first person to say i m sorry that my contacts, my comments might have been hurtful to some people. i retract what i said. when they come for her, she is going to lay down like she did.
the swedish prime minister is upset with at least concerned about the president s classification, yours as well, they feel they are being unfairly targeted here. they say that the numbers don t match up to what you re saying, they don t deserve to be 2349 middle of this, and you ve blown this out of proportion, because you have some sort of agenda behind it. what do you say to them? i think he s looking is it happiness in my country. is that supposed to be some kind of barometer for rape and murder being un? we can go over these numbers back and forth. again, i feel bad repeating the same number again, what i m telling you is the overall number, after the change definition, from 2006 to 2015 is up 50%. you re making a correlation to immigrants. we didn t talk about that. there is an absolute correlation. the evidence doesn t show that. what evidence are you the numbers, according to the broad numbers i have here, and the numbers from the state