atjust 27, adam hughes was forced to retire. a scan had revealed permanent damage to his brain.toms you'd usually associate with high—speed car crashes. the problem was, and what we wouldn't have realised back before, is that it wasn'tjust one high—speed car crash — it was one, two, three, four, within a couple of weeks of each other, which is unprecedented in the normal world. when you saw the results of the brain scan, did you immediately stop playing rugby or did you carry on for a bit? i never played a game of rugby after that. i think, based on what i know now, that they definitely knew more back then. it begs the question, really, why would you not have done more about it? if world rugby knew, i'm sure the unions knew, as well. by now, scientists were becoming increasingly worried, notjust by big concussions, but also subconcussive blows that left no initial symptoms. evidence was mounting these could cause a form of dementia known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy — or cte. it's what alix believes has happened to him, and notjust in the games themselves. the amount of c

adam very much. live another question coming in from mick hughes. whit beecher to say marshall at a true appreciation for john adams effort to hold the country together after washington? >> he was a great friend of john adams. one of the mythical probably conversations was when they had to find a new chief justice. marshall, i forget who he wanted. it does not matter. he said so-and-so and adams said no i think it will be you. >> there all sort of friends. i know more about philadelphia than washington. one of the things marshall did was in a sense a supervisor of the building of washington d.c. as down the secretary of state doing whatever he was doing it adam says it's too hot here and going to quincy it's your job. so it's possible that marshall was a first person to sleep in the white house because he did sort of bunk in their while who supervising. i don't if it's for sure he supervised the building of the capitol and the white house, but he had to get it done before his family could move in. >> we've got time for two more questions on the one c

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