Health, Sports & Psychology
Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
...system attacks the brain, causing inflammation and severe neurological symptoms – and placed in a medically induced coma. She woke four weeks later unable to walk, talk, read or write and more than 19 kg lighter. After years of rehabilitation, she made her World Cup debut against Samoa in 2025. Rosie Galligan’s road back was just as brutal. She nearly lost her legs to...