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As soon as the Top 14 match against La Rochelle ended this Saturday, January 4 in the evening, the Haut-Garonnais began their long journey which should take them to Durban, the scene on Saturday 11 of their Champions Cup match against the Sharks.
The rugby players from Stade Toulousain hardly had time to hang out in the locker room and the corridors of the Marcel-Deflandre stadium, Saturday January 4 in the evening. They were in a hurry, and for good reason.
They knew that, at the end of this meeting against La Rochelle (14th day of Top 14), they only had very little time to return to the airport of the maritime city. A specially chartered plane was waiting to repatriate them to Toulouse. Take-off: midnight at the latest, barely an hour after the final whistle of the match.
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Direction Toulouse, for a few hours of respite before the start of the big trip: Durban, in South Africa. This is where, Saturday January 11, Antoine Dupont and his teammates will challenge the Sharks, as part of the 3rd day of the Champions Cup.
A 12-hour journey, which Toulouse residents begin this Sunday, January 5 in the evening. Takeoff scheduled for 9 p.m., direction Paris Charles-de-Gaulle. Then, it will be a Paris-Johannesburg.
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The “red and black” will then reach Cape Town, before setting their sights on Durban. In the meantime, as President Didier Lacroix announced, the Toulouse delegation will go not far from the beach where the young Medhi Narjissi disappeared, swept away by the waves last summer.
Arrival in Durban is scheduled for Tuesday evening 7th. There, the Toulouse residents will take up residence in the hotel chosen by the EPCR (organizer of the Champions Cup) to welcome the Toulouse delegation made up of 49 people in total (including around thirty players).
Thus, for three days, Toulouse residents will have the opportunity to train on the grounds of a neighboring university.
