{"id":603641,"date":"2025-11-30T16:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603641\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:11:16","slug":"france-superstar-dupont-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603641\/","title":{"rendered":"France superstar Dupont is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAMES HARRINGTON<br \/>FRENCH COLUMN <\/p>\n<p>A little over eight months, or exactly 266 days if you prefer, after he suffered an ACL tear in France\u2019s Six Nations win over Ireland in Dublin, Antoine Dupont returned to rugby action for Toulouse, who hosted Racing 92 on Saturday evening.<br \/>It was a doubly emotional game for fans of the defending champions. As well as the happy welcome for Dupont \u2013 who had signed a contract extension through to 2031 on the pitch at half-time of the win over Stade Francais earlier this month \u2013 back to the playing fold, it was a game tinged with no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAMES HARRINGTONFRENCH COLUMN A little over eight months, or exactly 266 days if you prefer, after he suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,5014,18673,704,11653,12070,4209,2196,5707,12071,2385],"class_list":{"0":"post-603641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-gloucester","12":"tag-leicester","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-premium","15":"tag-saracens","16":"tag-six-nations","17":"tag-south-africa","18":"tag-top-14","19":"tag-toulon","20":"tag-toulouse"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115639529163727508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}