Former Scottish international Doddie Weir has spoken passionately about living with Motor Neurone Disease.
The 47-year-old first noticed symptoms such as a twitch in his hands around two years ago, he told BBC Scotland.
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Weir, who appeared 61 times for Scotland between 1990-2000 and was part of the Lions squad in 1997, for the most part rejects that playing rugby may have contributed to him being diagnosed with the disease.
I asked the question to my professor and there's no profound knowledge or anything to say that rugby was involved in my condition whatsoever.
However, later in the interview he does wonder if the small number of sufferers of Motor Neurone Disease leads to a lack of research being carried out as well as a lack of work being done towards discovering a cure.
I don't think there's any connection to it at the moment but I think the reason behind that is maybe that there's not a lot of studies.
Weir is now working towards setting up a foundation, 'Doddie Weir'5', to raise money for researching a cure as well as aiming to provide grants to people with the condition.
The full interview can be seen here.
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