Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Monday August 11, 2025 at 12:09 p.m.
Toulouse resumed this Monday morning. Antoine Dupont, victim of a rupture of the cross -knee cross ligaments last March, was not present with the group. Even if he “impatience”, the number 9 Superstar of the Champions of France would still not have received the green light to train collectively.
Resumption for the Toulouse stadium but not yet for Antoine Dupont. While the now triple reigning French champions had this Monday morning for the first training of this new Top 14 season on Monday morning of which they will once again be the immense favorites with Bordeaux-Bègles, their half of superstar melee, he shone by his absence. In reality, the gold medalist of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with the Blues of Rugby at 7, which he had joined as a luxury joker precisely to seek this first Olympic coronation, was also at the Red and Black training center on Monday. On the other hand, he did not participate in this first collective session of the season. And for good reason: if the number 9 Like the XV of France victim last March against Ireland during the 6 nations tournament of a rupture of the cross ligaments of the right knee continues the care alongside the club’s medical teams, it is not yet authorized to resume with the Ugo Mola group. Dupont must therefore wait yet. “He impatiently piaffe”, however, teach us our colleagues from Figarorelying on the secrets of a source close to the Toulouse stadium and confirming that the 29 -year -old rugby player elected best player in the world of last year at 7 has still not received the green light from doctors.
With Colombe and Thomas recruits, without Barassi
If Dupont was absent with the group on Monday but not the training complex, some of its teammates, which are now part of George-Henri Colombe and Teddy Thomas, both arrived at the offseason from La Rochelle, were really missing. Joshua Brennan, Paul Mallez, Pierre-Louis Barassi, back from the tour in New Zealand with the XV of France, Juan Cruz Mallia and Santiago Chocobares, who will start rugby championship with Argentina at the end of the week, as well as Blair Kinghorn, currently in Australia as the tour of the British lions, are only expected in training on August 18. Until then, Dupont should have resumed with the rest of the group.