{"id":307802,"date":"2026-01-28T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/307802\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:01:11","slug":"france-and-la-rochelle-tighthead-prop-uini-atonio-forced-to-retire-after-cardiac-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/307802\/","title":{"rendered":"France and La Rochelle tighthead prop Uini Atonio forced to retire after \u2018cardiac event\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"France's Uini Atonio in action against Ireland in the Six Nations last March at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a8b9b419-4b8a-42af-b9a2-ac4ef3cc4550.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">France&#8217;s Uini Atonio in action against Ireland in the Six Nations last March at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">French rugby has been rocked by news that veteran tighthead prop Uini Atonio has been forced to retire from rugby after suffering a \u2018cardiac event\u2019 earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The La Rochelle giant had been named in France\u2019s Six Nations squad and was set to face Ireland in Paris next week, however, he was admitted to hospital yesterday where a heart problem was detected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0 France&#8217;s Uini Atonio in action against Ireland in the Six Nations last March at the Aviva Stadium.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,23,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-307802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115972150802820982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}