Former U.S. women’s soccer star Abby Wambach intends to fully divest from a concussion drug company that is backed by Brett Favre. The company is at the center of a Mississippi welfare fraud case involving the former NFL quarterback, she told ESPN in an email this week.
Wambach, a World Cup winner and two-time gold medalist with the USWNT, was a member of the sports advisory board for Odyssey Health, a drug company that has said it is developing a nasal spray to treat concussions. Favre is Odyssey Health’s top investor.
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