The disease is an old acquaintance for
Matthieu Lartot
.
A malignant tumor deprived him of a career in rugby, at the age of all hopes.
The scrum half understands at 16 that he will only be able to live his passion from the sidelines.
As a reporter.
At just 23 years old, in 2003, and while he did not yet have his journalism diploma, there he was sitting in the stands at Twickenham alongside Serge Blanco, the Pelé of rugby, to commentate on England-Italy in the Tournament of the six nations.
His career was launched
“like a hornet”
, an expression which he sometimes uses and abuses in his rugby gloss.
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He then thinks he has won his fight against his sarcoma.
The traitor leaves him behind schedule.
Twenty-six years after knee cancer, a recurrence forced him to have his right leg amputated.
In record time, undoubtedly because he had prepared himself all his life for the possibility of being fitted with a prosthesis, he tamed his prosthesis.
With her, he learns to walk like a child again.
Matthieu Lartot tells it, not to be pitied – that's not the style of the house – but because he experienced it, against his will.
This Friday, February 2, the heir of Roger Couderc and Pierre Salviac, awarded by his peers with the 2023 Micro d'or, returns to the Tournament.
No doubt it will have a new scent for the sports journalist who received
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with a big smile.
Not a smile that hides the sadness of the heart.
No, the boy does not have tragic courage.
Nor heroism or demonstrative boldness.
But a strength of soul, that of a man who never wanted to give up his childhood dreams...