France's Dupont to miss November Tests with injury
The 28-year-old scrum-half suffered a serious knee injury on 8 March and will be sidelined for games against Rugby World Cup winners South Africa, Fiji and Australia.
France's scrum-half and captain Antoine Dupont looks on as he attends a Captain's Run training session at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, suburb of Paris, on 8 November 2024, on the eve of the rugby union test match between France and Japan. Picture: Anne-Christine POUJOULAT/AFP
PARIS - France captain Antoine Dupont said in an interview published on Tuesday he aims to return to playing after his country's November Tests.
The 28-year-old scrum-half suffered a serious knee injury on 8 March and will be sidelined for games against Rugby World Cup winners South Africa, Fiji and Australia.
"We'll be eight months on from my injury," the Toulouse half-back told French newspaper L'Equipe.
"I think it's a reasonable amount of time. I hope everything will go well between now and then.
"I'm not sure it would be very intelligent to rush, even if it's hard to miss international games."