Rugby: Antoine Dupont débute l'aventure olympique

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À six mois du début des Jeux olympiques de Paris, le célèbre demi de mêlée du XV de France, Antoine Dupont, a entamé mercredi son aventure olympique en prenant part à son premier entraînement avec l'équipe de France de rugby à VII à Marcoussis.  Sous la météo changeante du centre national de la Fédération française de rugby, dans l'Essonne, Antoine Dupont a pris ses marques avec le rugby à VII et avec les 15 autres joueurs appelés par le sélectionneur Jérôme Daret pour ce stage de préparation.  "On est très content d’accueillir Antoine. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 Six months after the start of the Paris Olympic Games, the famous semi-double of the French 15, Antoine Dupont,

00:06 began his Olympic adventure on Wednesday by taking part in his first training session with the French rugby team A7 in Marcousi.

00:12 Under the changing weather of the French Rugby Federation's National Centre, in Lessones,

00:18 Antoine Dupont took his marks with rugby A7 and with the 15 other players called by the national team coach Jérôme Daré for this training session.

00:25 "We are very happy to welcome Antoine. It is very positive for the group,"

00:30 said the captain of the French team A7, Paul-Henri Va, after the session.

00:34 Arriving on Tuesday night in Marcousi, the captain of the French 15 will remain only on Wednesday with the other sceptics,

00:40 who will continue this first training session of the year until Friday.

00:44 After a series of burpees carried out under the acclamation of his teammates,

00:48 a ritual required for every new player in the French group,

00:51 the half-time-tackle at the Toulousain Stadium was taken by the various exercises of the session,

00:55 multiplying the discussions with his teammates and with the coach.

00:59 "Very attentive. He has just arrived and does not know rugby A7 in particular,

01:04 so he was very attentive to observe the player of Agin and the French team A7, Jefferson Lee Joseph.

01:10 I think we have to reassure everyone who enters the group,

01:13 to be there to answer all the questions because it is a discipline that requires a lot of precision

01:18 and which has its specificities," added Paul-Henri Va.

01:21 Very applied handball, Antoine Dupont has particularly exercised on the kick-off shots,

01:26 as well as on the positioning in the rucks, specific to rugby A7,

01:30 always under the watchful eye of his partners.

01:33 "I was already very comfortable with it," commented Jérôme Daré at the end of the training session.

01:38 "He is a player who comes to expose himself, he comes out of his comfort zone and wants to uncover it.

01:43 "If the former half-back of Dax has no worries as to Antoine Dupont's adaptation to the tactics of his team,

01:49 the challenge will be to bring him to bear the workload and tend to what is the requirement of rugby A7.

01:55 There are differences in relation to rugby A15 on the physical dimension.

01:59 Antoine has all the skills to be able to exist in this game, in relation to speed,

02:04 but he must be brought to be able to support this load gradually, "he detailed.

02:09 An internship per month.

02:11 For this, the staff of the France A7 team will work in collaboration with the Toulousain stadium

02:16 and the 27-year-old half-back will come to train with the group France about once a month

02:20 until the last tournament of the season of the world circuit scheduled for Madrid, May 31 to June 2,

02:25 to which the French international will participate.

02:28 In addition to the training sessions, Dupont, who will make the impasse on the Six Nations tournament,

02:33 will play two other stages of the world circuit of rugby A7 in Vancouver,

02:37 23 to 25 February, and Los Angeles, 2 to 3 March.

02:41 Antoine Dupont is an excellent player on his qualities of duel and also of speed.

02:46 Now it's up to us to get the most out of him, to get him on board in our game project

02:50 and to make the French team shine, which dreams, like its new recruit,

02:54 to leave the Olympic gold this summer at the Stade de France.

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