- Antoine Dupont continues his rehabilitation after his rupture of the crossed ligament at the right knee.
- Distant to the field since last March, the tricolor half of melee plans to return to the very end of 2025.
We will not see Antoine Dupont again on the rugby terrains of soon. On the flank since its rupture of the crossed ligament of the right knee, the Toulouse scrum half gave its news this Tuesday, July 15. From Osaka (Japan), where he sponsors the French pavilion of the Universal Exhibition as an ambassador of the LVMH brand, he targeted next November for a possible end of convalescence. “We will then be at eight months since my right knee injury
(Contracted on March 8 against Ireland, in the Six Nations Tournament). I tell myself that this is already a reasonable delay. I hope everything will go well by then “
he slipped into the columns of
The team
.
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The captain of the XV of France Antoine Dupont gives his news after his knee operation
In all likelihood, the captain of the XV of France should therefore miss the start of the season with his club, whether in Top 14 or in Champions Cup, but also with the selection. The elusive N.9 should therefore not participate in the fall tour, in which matches against South Africa (November 8), Fiji (November 15) and Australia (November 22) are planned. “I’m not sure it would be very intelligent to hurry, even if it’s always hard to miss international appointments”
he confides to our colleagues. “I still have a few years left, and knees, I have only two, one (the law) which is already well damaged. So I have to take care of it”
he adds.
