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<\/p>\nThe scrum-half ruptured his cruciate ligament against Ireland during the Six Nations back in March and has been out of action ever since.<\/p>\n
The Toulouse No 9, who helped his country win gold in the rugby sevens at the Paris 2024 Olympics, has reportedly been linked with a move away from his home country, having previously criticised the salary restrictions in France\u2019s top flight, the Top 14.<\/p>\n
Now, Les Bleus\u2019 boss Fabien Galthie has confirmed his captain will be part of the November training camp, but there is a catch.<\/p>\n
While Dupont will join his teammates back out on the grass at Marcoussis, he will not feature in any of France\u2019s upcoming Test matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe will train with us in the 42 plus one,\u201d Galthie told Sud Ouest.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should not ask him for the impossible. Antoine is finishing his rehabilitation and preparing for his return to play. He will participate in training with restraint.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dupont has begun ball work once more with his club this week, but he has not participated in heavy contact yet.<\/p>\n
In the Autumn Internationals, France take on South Africa, Fiji and Australia, and Dupont will play an important leadership role off the field for those games.<\/p>\n
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France\u2019s Antoine Dupont (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n
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The Top 14 season hits pause during the international period, and Toulouse seemingly have allowed Dupont to travel and train alongside his compatriots.<\/p>\n
Ugo Mola, the Toulouse head coach, said: \u201cEach day, we are a little less far from his return.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, we will see him back on the pitch in a little under two months.\u201d<\/p>\n
Should Dupont\u2019s comeback trail continue smoothly, that would mean that he would be fit to play in next year\u2019s Six Nations, where he would be set to win his 60th cap for his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scrum-half ruptured his cruciate ligament against Ireland during the Six Nations back in March and has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-70078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70078","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=70078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}