If he gives the impression, given his incredible season, of transforming everything into gold, Antoine Dupont is a very bad loser according to his brother.
The trauma of elimination against South Africa at the World Cup barely erased, Antoine Dupont had a golden year in 2024. Not content with signing an impressive double with Stade Toulousain, with the Champions Cup in May and the Top 14 in June, the French scrum half continued with the Olympic Games, adorning himself with gold with the French rugby team at 7. Enough to satisfy his thirst for victories.
The former Castres hardly tastes defeat. And this since a very young age. As evidenced by the anecdote delivered by his big brother in the columns of The Team. « We were the type to invite everyone over to play all the time.. We spent a lot of time together. Sport brought us together, Clément, three years his senior, first explained. The problem was that he didn't accept losing, in checkers as in everything else. If he saw himself in difficulty, he changed the rules of the game during the game so that he could regain the upper hand. He scammed me every time and he was happy! »
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A bad loser side confirmed by his mother.
“Antoine, if we had listened to him, he would have played all sports, she explained about the one who played rugby, obviously, but also football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, ping-pong or pétanque, adding: “It’s true that he was a bad loser. He got angry easily. Fortunately, Clément always ended up giving in. Otherwise, we would still be there…”
In the documentary Dupont, naturally, broadcast on Canal+, Clément Dupont had already mentioned this aspect of the Toulouse resident's personality. “He’s a horrible competitor. He can't stand being defeated. Let it be a Monday afternoon to play a game of ping-pong. I know it can get nasty quickly. I lived it”, he confided, while his mother shared another anecdote:
“He always liked to order. I always told him: 'You'll have to find a job where you'll be a chef because otherwise it won't work.' »
