Olympic gold medallist Antoine Dupont was named in France’s 15-a-side rugby union squad on Wednesday just over three months after his sparkling performances for the sevens team during their surge to glory at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Dupont, 27, did not feature during the 2024 Six Nations tournament as he went through his paces with the sevens sides for the Olympic tournament.
The switch ended perfectly for the 2021 international player of the year.
His appearance in the second-half of the final against the defending champions Fiji ignited a comeback victory and provided France with their first gold medal of the Games.
The hosts went on to collect 15 more as part of a 64-medal haul that took them to fifth in the medal table – the best performance by a European country.
It will be Dupont’s first appearance for France since their narrow defeat to South Africa in the quarter-final of the 2023 rugby union World Cup at the Stade de France.
Absences
Notable absences from Fabien Galthié’s squad are Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou.
The two 21-year-olds were accused of raping a 39-year-old woman in a hotel room after a trip to a nightclub following the first game of France’s summer tour of South America.
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