The main news from this Wednesday morning is here: the media were all entitled on Tuesday at the end of the afternoon to a version that was, to say the least, incomplete of the situation of Antoine Dupont for his real return to training (understand with contact) with the group in Rueil-Malmaison. Namely a version of a very smiling Dupont, with the titular number 9 chasuble and without the slightest protection on his face, despite his maxillo-zygomatic fracture. The Team tells us that once the media were asked to let the training take place in earnest behind closed doors, the Toulouse scrum half equipped himself with a black protective helmet for a little over an hour of training, first against the young people of Racing 92, then against the French substitutes.
“It was to see what it was like,” attacking coach Laurent Labit said in a press conference. Did that really protect him? Does it not bother him in terms of vision and hearing? »So many questions which accompany the question of the start (or not) of Antoine Dupont for Sunday against the Springboks.