World Rugby to adopt ‘game-changing’ G-force tech to flag major head impacts

Players removed if in-play data shows collision forces too high

IMPACT: France's Antoine Dupont after taking a knock to the head in the RWC pool game against Namibia in Marseille

Rugby union is to become the world’s first sport to use technology to automatically withdraw players with a suspected brain injury from the field of play, according to The Guardian.

World Rugby is expected to confirm within the next 48 hours that it will adopt smart mouthguard technology, which measures the G-force of every head impact in real-time, in all its elite matches to help make the game safer.