Ireland and Scotland savoured victories in the third round of the Guinness Six Nations and Italy claimed an historic 13-13 draw against France, the first time the Azzurri have avoided Championship defeat away to Les Bleus.
Here, we look at five things we learned from the weekend’s action. New technology surrounding mouthguards are concerning Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend.
Scotland temporarily lost a second player in successive Six Nations matches for a head injury assessment triggered by the new technology.
This championship is the first time elite male players have worn ‘instrumented’ mouthguards that send alerts whenever a ‘head acceleration event’ with G-force that exceeds 70g and 4,000 radians per second squared is detected.
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