At the end of January, for about ten days before the start of the Six Nations Tournament, the Blues went on an internship at the Foreign Legion camp in Carpiane.
"This is an extremely promising first milestone in the framework of the FFR-Legion partnership", had then entrusted to the Figaro The commander of the 1st REC, Colonel Henri Leinekugel Le Cocq.
An experience, however free of physical tests, which convinced coach Fabien Galthié to renew it.
As revealed by the president of the FFR, Bernard Laporte, at the Midi Olympique, the XV of France will carry out a commando internship within the Legion regiment based in Cayenne, Guyana, before the 2023 World Cup. “Fabien Galthié and Thibault Giroud (the performance director) will go there at the beginning of April to anticipate the thing”, revealed Bernard Laporte.