The suspension of Antoine Dupont following his red card against South Africa has been reduced from four to two weeks on appeal, which allows the scrum-half of the XV of France and Toulouse to play again immediately.
“The appeal committee has accepted his appeal and reduced his suspension from four to two weeks,” said the body on Wednesday in a statement, which heard the player by videoconference on Monday and took into account his apologies and his clean record in disciplinary matters.
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The captain of the Tricolores had been excluded for having unbalanced in the air the South African winger Cheslin Kolbe during the match of November 12 in Marseille (won by France 30-26). Suspended in the first instance for four weeks, he missed the France-Japan match on November 20 (35-17) and the Lyon-Toulouse match (21-14) of Top 14 on November 27.
The reduction in his sentence allows the Toulousain to apply for the reception of Perpignan on Saturday as part of the 12th day of the Top 14. It will also allow him to start the European campaign of the Red and Black, which begins with the Irish of Munster on December 11.