If he had an incredible adventure with the French Rugby sevens team leading up to an Olympic coronation, Antoine Dupont does not at all envisage a near future far from Stade Toulousain.
Antoine Dupont's next challenge is clear. Star captain of Stade Toulousain, with whom he is a quadruple champion of France and double winner of the Champions Cup, the scrum half has become the darling of French rugby and even one of the heroes of French sport during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The parenthesis is closed. Gold medalist with the French rugby sevens team, the 27-year-old Bigourdan now wants to offer the very first World Cup in history to his country, during the next edition in 2027 in Australia.
In the meantime, Dupont sees himself nowhere other than with the Rouge et Noir, where he is under contract until 2027. “Today, I don’t see myself playing for any other club in the Top 14 than Stade Toulousain. I have no reason to change today. I am lucky to be in a successful club, in a city that is pleasant to live in and which is not far from where I am from. All the factors come together to be able to continue to flourish here”he told Sud Radio.
Antoine Dupont as Frédéric Michalak?
In three years, at the end of his contract with Toulouse and in the wake of the Australian World Cup, Antoine Dupont could, for example, imitate Frédéric Michalak, one of his oval ball idols, who changed his life at 26 to play in New Zealand (he returned to play in Toulouse for three seasons before returning to the Sharks). Especially since Dupont has been plunged into an unprecedented media whirlwind since his gold medal obtained on the first weekend of the Paris Olympics.
The native of Lannemezan is making his comeback in Saint-Denis with Fabien Galthié's XV of France with the arrivals of Japan, New Zealand and Argentina, on November 9, 16 and 22, as part of the Autumn Nations Series 2024, for a major shock against the Blacks. Antoine Dupont will also try to win his second Six Nations Tournament next winter.
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