2024-01-12 03:30:08
Mark your calendars! For a month and a half, don’t miss anything from the posters for the 2024 Six Nations Tournament. From February 2 to March 16, France, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and Italy will compete for the trophy put into play by the XV of Clover author of the Grand Slam in 2023.
The competition will begin with the shock of the Tournament, Friday February 2, in Marseille. This will pit the two injured beasts of the 2023 World Cup, France and Ireland, at the Vélodrome stadium in Marseille, who were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the competition by South Africa and New Zealand. while they were aiming for the world title.
Each side will have to do without its leader of recent years: while the emblematic opener Jonathan Sexton has bowed out, the French captain Antoine Dupont has decided to skip the Tournament to devote himself fully to the preparation of the Olympic Games, which he dreams of playing with the French rugby sevens team.
Still led by Fabien Galthié, the XV of France, which hosts three times for two trips in this even year, will seek to repeat its performance of 2022, its last victory to date, Grand Slam at stake.
Among the other events not to be missed, there will obviously be the Crunch between France and England. This will take place at the Groupama Stadium in Décines-Charpieu, at the end of the Tournament, on Saturday March 16 at 9 p.m. In the meantime, the Blues will also host Italy on Sunday February 25 at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve-d’Ascq.
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