{"id":384840,"date":"2026-01-22T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384840\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:45:08","slug":"six-nations-thibaud-flament-to-miss-france-vs-ireland-six-nations-test-to-attend-wifes-fertility-treatment-rugby-union-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384840\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: Thibaud Flament to miss France vs Ireland Six Nations Test to attend wife&#8217;s fertility treatment | Rugby Union News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France lock\u00a0Thibaud Flament will miss their opening Test of the 2026 Six Nations against Ireland in order to attend his wife&#8217;s fertility treatment appointment.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old, whose wife has endometriosis, revealed the clash and his decision on Thursday, having been included in head coach Fabien Galthie&#8217;s 42-player squad earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Galthie had previously said Flament would miss the Test against Ireland in Paris on Thursday, February 5 for &#8220;personal reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#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 L&#8217;Equipe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We learned at the beginning of January that ART [assisted reproductive technology] falls in the same week as Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&#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<p>Last year, Flament recovered from injury to start against Italy, Ireland and Scotland as France secured the 2025 Six Nations title.<\/p>\n<p>He also started for Toulouse in June as they clinched the Top 14 title &#8211; Flament&#8217;s fourth with the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France lock\u00a0Thibaud Flament will miss their opening Test of the 2026 Six Nations against Ireland in order to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-384840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}