Paris: Marc Dal Maso who won two Five Nations Grand Slams with France and was a coach for Japan at this year's World Cup announced yesterday that he has Parkinson's Disease. Dal Maso, 48, said he did not have the degenerative disorder through "chance".


Marc Dal Maso

He told the Midi-Olympique rugby daily: "Let's just say there are sports which help illnesses like this and rugby is one of them."