2023-08-23 08:25:35
We strongly suggest to Antoine Dupont not to forget the cap that covers his head during training at Capbreton. He and his partners will experience this Wednesday afternoon a hot high-intensity session, designed by the staff to exhaust the organisms. Very hot even. The XV of France will join the lawn of the Capbreton stadium, where it completes its preparation for the World Cup, around 2:45 p.m. When Meteo France announces a temperature of 35 ° C, felt 37. In the shade, when the tricolors are busy in the sun.
Ten degrees higher than Tuesday in this city of the Landes, a department placed in heat wave orange vigilance since Sunday. A stifling day therefore which prompted the French Rugby Federation and the Landes prefecture to cancel the attendance of the public for the session. Massaging 2,700 people under the dodger is no. But for the Blues, there is no question for the time being of advancing or postponing the time of training to get a bit of freshness.
“We are not going to adapt to the heat, warned Thibault Giroud on Tuesday, in charge of the physical preparation of the contenders for the planetary coronation. We’ve been working on this for a while now. We are not going to give up training at 9 a.m. to attack on this during the day given what we are asking for, and not in the evening either because we have to release the players who go back to the club. »
The XV of France will therefore come out at the hottest hours. “We are well prepared for that, judges the opening half Antoine Hastoy. It was more suffocating in Monaco (where the Blues launched their preparation in early July) than here. We must make do. »
“We are working on dehydration and on what the players lose in quantity and quality in these sessions, explains the health manager of the Blues, Bruno Boussagol. We have a workload to carry out. We will stay on this load, and be attentive to the loss of water. “History not to chew the troops too much before the final rehearsal on Sunday against Australia at the Stade de France.
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