Antoine Dupont at the Vélodrome stadium, it's a funny story.
The French scrum-half took a red card against South Africa in 2022, fractured his cheekbone against Namibia in 2023. And he chose to desert it in 2024 for the start of the Six Nations Tournament .
But, even absent, Antoine Dupont caused a lot of talk in Marseille, where this XV of France orphaned by its X factor was humiliated by Ireland (17-38).
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On Monday, the Blues will engage in a major explanation in Marcoussis to try to analyze this heavy defeat.
“We will have to tell ourselves the truth,” warns Grégory Alldritt, the captain of the Blues.
His predecessor and friend Dupont should be on the same day a few kilometers away, at Insep, for an internship with the French rugby sevens team, which he plans to join for the Paris Olympics.
So far, so close...
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