He put one knee on the ground.
And let her tears, her sorrows and her relief flow.
Brice Dulin ended up failing Sunday in Ireland.
Not in the game, where the back of the XV of France was impressive during the victory of the Blues (15-13) in Dublin.
But, emotionally, in those times when everything comes to the surface.
“The course, the match, happiness that we like to have.
This is all the work that we have been doing for two weeks, all that is superb, he breathed, questioned on the why of his tears at the microphone of France Televisions after this second tricolor success in the Tournament of the Six Nations .
The years in selection have not always been rosy.
There, we savor ... "
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Removed from the France team for three years, Dulin returned on tiptoe this fall, thanks to an agreement between the League and the French Rugby Federation which prevented the staff from soliciting their usual group on the all the appointments of the period.
A superb performance followed in England, which put him back in the game and allowed him to return to this Tournament as a starter at the back.
To finally experience moments of joy in the tricolor jersey, he who experienced the difficult years and in particular the historic defeat against New Zealand in the quarter-finals of the 2015 World Cup (62-13).
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The Blues winger takes advantage of the excellent work of Brice Dulin to score the second try of the match.
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“It touched me to see him like that, loose his former partner at Racing 92, Benjamin Dambielle.
I know everything he went through, the job he did to recover from his left knee injury (
Editor's note: in 2018
) and the personal ordeal he went through with the death of his father (
Editor's note: : in 2017
).
There, I saw the player I knew in Racing, with all his qualities.
"
"He was amazing"
One of them, his mastery of aerial balloons, was particularly appreciated in a meeting where Ireland, failing to be sharp, stepped up the candles, hoping for an error from the Blues.
But Dulin was watching.
"He provides enormous security on that, he was incredible," says its opener, Matthieu Jalibert.
Beyond that, Brice is one of the players who advise us, who talk to us a lot on the pitch.
"
The only thirty-year-old holder in Ireland with Bernard Le Roux, Brice Dulin added to this role of executive and sky switch a sacrifice to avoid the Irish try of James Lowe (25th) and a decisive role on the second try of the Blues, which he offers to Penaud (55th).
The whole thing gives a logical man of the match title for the one who left Racing 92 for La Rochelle this summer.
A new start.
As with the XV of France.