2023-09-23 09:11:43
2023 Rugby World Cup in FrancefileInjured following a head impact against the river victory against Namibia on Thursday September 21, the captain of the Blues suffers from a maxillo-zygomatic fracture. He was operated on Friday evening.
Health bulletin. The captain of the XV of France Antoine Dupont was operated on Friday evening after his broken jaw, the French Rugby Federation announced on Saturday September 23, which wanted to be reassuring in its press release. “In a few days, he will be able to return to the French team in a process of gradual sporting resumption,” we can read.
Dupont was hit between the jaw and cheekbone Thursday evening during the match between France and Namibia (96-0).
On Friday, the federation specified that a “surgical opinion had been requested to define the duration of the unavailability” but that in the meantime Dupont, 26, “remained with the France group”. A relief for the followers of the Blue XV, while the injury led to fears of unavailability until the end of the World Cup.
For this type of injury, however, the convalescence period can be up to several weeks, but a professional club doctor interviewed by the team “ensures that a player can play again, in the best case, between seven and ten days after the fracture”. France will play its next match against Italy on October 6 and its probable quarter-final on the weekend of October 14.
Doctor Bernard Dusfour, former president of the medical commission of the National Rugby League (LNR), explained to AFP on Friday that, in the event of surgery, the minimum unavailability for a high-level athlete is “four weeks “. Which would only allow a return to the semi-final at best. “I have always said that the problem in rugby is playing injured players. “It’s not a good idea,” he added.
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