2024-02-03 08:14:00
After the heavy defeat of the Blues once morest Ireland (17-38), Friday evening at the opening of the Six Nations Tournament, Dave Appadoo criticized Antoine Dupont’s choice to abandon the French XV to devote himself to rugby sevens in with a view to preparing for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Almost four months following its enormous disillusionment at the World Cup, the French XV returned to competition this Friday evening at the Vélodrome stadium in Marseille, with a shock opening of the VI Nations Tournament once morest Ireland. A reunion with the French public which went badly for Fabien Galthié’s troop, outclassed by the XV du Trèfle (17-38).
A second defeat in a row for the Blues in which the French rugby star, Antoine Dupont, did not take part, who decided to skip the VI Nations to concentrate on his preparation with the French team rugby sevens with a view to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. A totally incomprehensible choice for Dave Appadoo.
“Rugby is on another planet”
“I find that rugby is on another planet. He is the best player in the world (Antoine Dupont). He is the figure of French rugby and from afar, it is he who carries it, who revives it, it is for him that people go to the stadium. And like a letter in the post, just so certain we say: “it’s a shame, it’s regrettable”, we let him sacrifice a season with the French team, including the Six Nations Tournament, for a project in another discipline, all to go to the Olympic Games”castigated the journalist on the set of the L’Equipe channel.
And to continue his rant: “I transpose: it’s as if you didn’t have eleven-a-side football at the Olympics but seven-a-side football, it’s as if Kylian Mbappé said: “keep your Euro, I’m going to train with the team of France of mini football and I want to participate in the Games”, what would we have said! It’s a matter of state! He’s getting massacred! In rugby, no one said anything. Continue to accept that the best French player by far does not participate in the VI Nations. Say it in front of all of France that the Six Nations Tournament is an exhibition, that it doesn’t count. »
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