A rumor here, a post on social networks there… but no public speaking. For three weeks and his famous maxillo-zygomatic fracture, Antoine Dupont had not mentioned this period of doubt, for him, and media tumult, for everyone. The silence ended on Friday. “I thought the competition was over for me“, he declared on the sidelines of the announcement of the composition of the XV of France, for Sunday’s quarter-final against South Africa.
Antoine Dupont will wear a helmet to face South Africa: “The surgeon more than suggested it to me…”
