Rugby World Cup: Argentina recovers the XV de France hotel in Rueil, the All Blacks in Croissy

2023-10-16 19:49:22

Barely gone, already replaced. The French XV, cruelly eliminated in the quarter-finals of “its” World Cup, will have to leave the competition, and its current hotel in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine). As nature, and World Rugby, abhors a vacuum, the Blues’ rooms will be taken over by lucky people qualified for the last four.

Argentina has indeed chosen the Renaissance Hippodrome de Saint-Cloud hotel in Rueil to stay until its semi-final against New Zealand, this Friday evening (9 p.m.) at the Stade de France. The Pumas will train at the Parc stadium, like Dupont and his teammates before them.

The game of musical chairs between the teams still qualified continues for the base camps of these semi-finals. The team’s choices a year ago are respected unless two teams chose the same hotel, in which case it was a draw that decided between them. As a result, New Zealand meets for the week in Croissy-sur-Seine (Yvelines).

South Africans at Domont, England at INSEP

The same place where the victorious South Africans of the Blues stayed before their success in the quarter-final. The Springboks are therefore also moving, towards Domont (Val-d’Oise), the base camp left vacant by the Irish (eliminated by the All Blacks). You follow ?

And it’s not over: the last qualifier, England, who will face the Springboks (Saturday, 9 p.m. at the Stade de France) arrives to train at INSEP, in the Bois de Vincennes, former site of All Blacks training (the hotel will be in Marne-la-Vallée).

We summarize for this short week until the semi-finals: Argentina at Rueil-Malmaison, New Zealand at Croissy-sur-Seine, South Africa at Domont, and England at INSEP and Marne Valley. No training session, in this final stretch, will be open to the public.