What a year 2024 was for Antoine Dupont! He will have won everything: the Top 14, the Champions Cup but above all the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. With the French Rugby sevens team, he achieved the feat of winning the gold medal, against the Fijians, best team in the world. He logically experienced a boom in popularity which led him to participate in a show, during which he admitted to not having a girlfriend. And to send a message of tolerance.
Rugby is a virile sport and like many, few athletes have had the courage to come out. However, several voices are being raised to encourage them to take this first step, but for the moment they have not been followed up on. Antoine Dupontan international rugby star, also spoke about this issue, through questions asked about his love life.
“I don’t have a girlfriend”
In the broadcast of “ Papotin meetings » broadcast on France 2budding journalists with disabilities asked many questions to Antoine Dupont. Without filter, the scrum half of Stade Toulouse a you XV of France spoke about his love life: “ I don't have a girlfriend. If, afterwards, I have my rugby friends, then I have plenty of them. »
“We would be ready to accept homosexual people without any problem”
The discussion with these journalists quickly turned to the taboo question of homosexuality in sport. Antoine Dupont answered frankly: “ It is still a subject that is still taboo. For example, in professional rugby we only have one player who has come out but I think that statistically there must be others. We would be ready to accept that without any problem so we have to continue talking about it to make people feel comfortable. » Perhaps this speaking out will help some.
