the essentials The scrum half quickly left the Ernest-Wallon grounds after Toulouse’s success in the Champions Cup, in order to take part in the traditional charity event which was held several hundred kilometers away.
A busy schedule! What could be more normal when your name is Antoine Dupont. This Sunday, January 21, the program of the star scrum half of Stade Toulousain was not limited to playing a Champions Cup rugby match with the “rouge et noir” club.
Shortly after the final whistle of the match against Bath, solidly won by Toulouse (31-19), Antoine Dupont left the Ernest-Wallon enclosure towards… Bordeaux! More precisely: the Arkéa Arena in the Gironde city.
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He was in fact called upon to participate, like last year, in the traditional Enfoirés concert, for the benefit of Restos du Coeur. The show, this Sunday evening, started at 7 p.m., for a show lasting 5:30 hours! Indeed, this performance was intended in particular to feed the televised version of the concert on TF1. Thus, certain sequences were shot several times for television purposes.
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Around 11 p.m., Michaël Youn arrived on stage carrying the Olympic flame. Former French XV player Sébastien Chabal then arrived as a firefighter, and put out what he thought was a fire.
A sketch then takes place between the two men. Michaël Youn then says: “We’re not going to win anything anyway, except in rugby sevens since we’re going there at 15.”
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It was at this moment that Antoine Dupont appeared on stage, to a warm ovation from the audience. During the evening, the Haut-Pyrénées participated in two songs, including a revisited version of Jo Dassin’s title “Dans les yeux d’Emilie” (1978), which in recent years has become an anthem frequently heard in rugby stadiums. .
Suffice to say that some spectators were amazed to see Antoine Dupont arrive, whom they had seen in Toulouse in front of their TV, just a few hours earlier.
