{"id":258922,"date":"2026-01-23T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258922\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:58:08","slug":"thibaud-flament-to-miss-ireland-six-nations-clash-to-attend-wifes-fertility-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258922\/","title":{"rendered":"Thibaud Flament to miss Ireland Six Nations clash to attend wife&#8217;s fertility treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thibaud Flament will miss France&#8217;s Six Nations opener against Ireland in order to attend his wife&#8217;s fertility treatment appointment, the lock has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old explained his decision on Thursday, after having been chosen to be a part of Fabien Galthie&#8217;s 42-player squad earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Galthie previously confirmed on Thursday that Flament would miss the game due to personal reasons but didn&#8217;t explain further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t control the date. The timing is based on the menstrual cycle of women, with a whole protocol around it,&#8221; Flament told French publication L&#8217;Equipe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;We learned at the beginning of January that ART (assisted reproductive technology) falls in the same week as Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Even if I saw this possibility coming, it&#8217;s not possible to do both, so I won&#8217;t play.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thibaud Flament will miss France&#8217;s Six Nations opener against Ireland in order to attend his wife&#8217;s fertility treatment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,15551],"class_list":["post-258922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-six-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}