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Adam Goodes: How racist abuse ended my career

Former AFL star Adam Goodes describes the toll racist abuse took on him and how being abused by a teenage girl during a game set in motion a chain of events that saw him walk away from the sport in 2015. 

The two-time Brownlow medal winner and 2014 Australian of the Year spoke with Sportshour as a film charting the sequence of events that ended his career - The Australian Dream - was released in the UK.

Credit: Adam Goodes of the Sydney Swans looks on after being defeated during a match against the Fremantle Dockers. (Photo: Getty Images)

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