{"id":60218,"date":"2025-08-11T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/60218\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:48:07","slug":"the-low-key-antoine-dupont-update-thatll-tantalize-rugby-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/60218\/","title":{"rendered":"The low-key Antoine Dupont update that&#8217;ll tantalize rugby fans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>France superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/antoine-dupont\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antoine Dupont<\/a> is pushing hard for a return to action as his rehabilitation from a serious knee injury enters its final stages at Toulouse.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee on 8 March during France\u2019s Guinness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/six-nations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Six Nations<\/a> win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a> in Dublin. <\/p>\n<p>It was an injury that shocked the French rugby public and ruled him out for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Six weeks on from lifting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/top-14\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 14<\/a> title with Stade Toulousain in June, the squad returned to training on Monday in temperatures topping 30 degrees. New recruits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/teddy-thomas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teddy Thomas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/georges-henri-colombe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georges-Henri Colombe<\/a>, both signed from La Rochelle, were among around thirty players present.<\/p>\n<p>Dupont, who continues his daily rehab work under the supervision of club medics, has yet to be cleared for full training but, according to a source close to the club, is \u201cchomping at the bit\u201d to get back on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Missing from the first session were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/pierre-louis-barassi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre-Louis Barassi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/joshua-brennan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Brennan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/paul-mallez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Mallez<\/a>, all recently back from France\u2019s summer tour to New Zealand, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/blair-kinghorn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blair Kinghorn<\/a>, currently in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> with the British &amp; Irish Lions, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/argentina\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina<\/a> internationals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/juan-cruz-mallia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Cruz Mallia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/santiago-chocobares\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santiago Chocobares<\/a>, who start their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/the-rugby-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby Championship<\/a> campaign this week. Kinghorn and the three French internationals are due back on 18 August.<\/p>\n<p>Toulouse\u2019s summer programme features two friendlies: against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/vannes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vannes<\/a> in Guingamp on 22 August and away to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/bayonne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayonne<\/a> on 28 August. Their Top 14 title defence begins away to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/clermont\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clermont<\/a> the weekend of 6 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France superstar Antoine Dupont is pushing hard for a return to action as his rehabilitation from a serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-60218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}