JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN
A little over eight months, or exactly 266 days if you prefer, after he suffered an ACL tear in France’s Six Nations win over Ireland in Dublin, Antoine Dupont returned to rugby action for Toulouse, who hosted Racing 92 on Saturday evening.
It was a doubly emotional game for fans of the defending champions. As well as the happy welcome for Dupont – who had signed a contract extension through to 2031 on the pitch at half-time of the win over Stade Francais earlier this month – back to the playing fold, it was a game tinged with no …