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Published“The goal is to go and get a play-off spot”: Stade Aurillacois president Christian Millette has no intention of reliving last season
As Pro D2 gets back under way, Stade Aurillacois president Christian Millette looks back on his side's botched end to last season, the summer recruitment, the new pitch at Jean-Alric and the club's resources.
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PublishedWhat happened to Rémy Martin? The former international has changed scrums
After fifteen years spent tackling the very best, Rémy Martin has taken on an adventure nobody saw coming. The former Stade Français, Montpellier and Bayonne back-rower now runs a bakery. A radical change of life that says as much about the man as about the player. Behind the counter, his rugby reflexes have never really gone away. And while his two sons carry the story on in the Toulouse jersey, he is enjoying another kind of win, quieter but just as demanding.
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PublishedHe took up rugby at 17, nearly left for basketball in the United States… and became an Olympic champion: the unlikely road of Jordan Sepho
Nothing marked Jordan Sepho out to become one of the faces of French sevens. At 17, the Réunion native discovered the oval ball almost by chance, having turned down an American basketball adventure. Eight years later, he is an Olympic champion. A few days after France 7's win in Bordeaux, we met a quiet man who makes little noise, but never lacks conviction.
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Published“Even at pétanque, they wanted to win all the time”: first coach, first supporter and first role model, Hugues Lanen talks about his sons
In Mende, everybody knows the Lanens. Not because they like to be talked about, but because for years their name has been passing from pitch to pitch. Clément, Thibaud and Rémi have all taken the road to the top level, each in his own way. A rare thing in French rugby. And yet, behind that almost improbable success, there is no miracle recipe and no obsession with performance. Only a father, Hugues, who passed on a taste for hard work, for family and for the land. To mark Father's Day, the portrait of a man whose greatest victory is not measured in tries.
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PublishedHow the Haute-Vienne became a great development region… without managing to make its clubs win
It keeps producing internationals, feeding the biggest French clubs and developing generations of players. And yet, on its own pitches, the senior sides are collapsing one after another. Behind the relegations of Isle, Saint-Junien and RCPSY, and behind USAL Limoges's thwarted ambitions, lies a paradox unique in French rugby: that of a region which produces a huge amount... but capitalises on very little. An investigation into an oval-ball land still looking for its model.
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PublishedHow is the Haute-Vienne, a land of rugby, losing its clubs?
Only a few years ago, four Haute-Vienne clubs were keeping national rugby alive. Today, Isle, Saint-Junien and Saint-Yrieix have almost all left the federal divisions, while USAL are still struggling to establish themselves at the top level. Behind this slow fading lies a fascinating paradox: the department has never produced so many international players, yet it has never seemed so far from building a club capable of keeping them.
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Published“It was hell for the opposition”: Aurillac say goodbye to the legendary Jean-Alric pitch
For more than a century it has seen mud, snow, unlikely upsets and the biggest battles Pro D2 has to offer. In Aurillac, the legendary natural surface at the Stade Jean-Alric will disappear this summer, replaced by an artificial pitch. Before the work starts, the club and the local authority have decided to sell pieces of it to supporters. A symbolic way of saying goodbye to a pitch that became a cult object across French rugby.
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Published“At three, she was the dressing-room mascot”: Yogane Correa, Cloé’s father, opens up
For years, Cloé Correa hung around pitches, dressing rooms and third halves, the little mascot of a father who had been a professional player and a Senegal international. Today she wears the France women's jersey. Between gruff demands, unspoken love and immense pride, Yogane Correa describes the special bond he shares with the daughter who became an international.
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PublishedVincent Lièvremont, the other brother: in La Réunion, the quiet, wild life of a rugby lover who went far from the noise
He had chosen La Réunion the way others choose exile. Far from the spotlight, far from his family's famous name, far from a professional game that had become a machine. Vincent Lièvremont died a few days ago of generalised bone cancer. He was 56. On the island, where he had landed in the early 1990s with dreams of the ends of the earth. Many remember a free man, a little wild, deeply endearing. A man who walked barefoot, hugged trees and preferred (towards the end) the margins to the din.
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PublishedPhilip Wokorach, Rugby club Orléans’ X-factor and Nationale 2’s leading try-scorer
Quick, rangy, spectacular: the Ugandan phenomenon of RC Orléans embodies the globalisation of French amateur rugby all by himself. Nationale 2's leading try-scorer and a former star of African sevens, Philip Wokorach goes against the grain, blending humility, explosiveness and a dream of the very top level.
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Published“We are building a pro club in an amateur world”: how Orléans became the ogre of Nationale 2
President of Rugby Club Orléans for the past four years, Didier Bouriez is steering a rise that is as rapid as it is methodical. One of the biggest budgets in Nationale 2, an XXL staff, a regional project, a 15-million-euro stadium and openly stated ambitions all the way to Pro D2: the RCO are moving forward like an elite business towards the semi-finals of their competition. But behind the means, the man in charge lays claim above all to a vision. Meeting a president who came from football, fell in love with rugby… and is determined to make Orléans a stronghold of French rugby.
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Published“The European Cup is not a priority”: South Africa owns it fully… and that changes everything
The European Cup is not a priority." The verdict, slipped out behind the scenes by a source close to the South African federation, softens nothing. Empty stands, Springboks rested, a calendar simply endured: behind the openly assumed sports business, the franchises of Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg are playing to a different tune. And the Champions Cup, 2026 vintage, is wobbling.
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PublishedAn island of huge potential still under-exploited? Behind the scenes of Mauritian rugby with Jean-Baptiste Gobelet
A former Biarritz Olympique player and a two-time French champion, Jean-Baptiste Gobelet has spent eight years driving the development of rugby in Mauritius and its Olympic academy. With few resources but a global vision, he is building an atypical model, somewhere between player development, necessary exile and a quest for recognition and performance.
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PublishedFFR-LNR, an unprecedented panel of experts to save players from burnout?
Faced with the explosion in the number of matches and warnings about players wearing out, the French rugby federation and the national league are launching an unprecedented panel of experts. The aim: to rethink workload in order to preserve performance without sacrificing health.
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Published“At Cardiff, it was 15 of us against 71,000”: Jean-Baptiste Gobelet’s burning European Cup memories
A former Biarritz Olympique player, Jean-Baptiste Gobelet played in the European Cup between 2002 and 2011. Memorable campaigns, two finals, atmospheres like no other. He dives back into his memories and gives his view on a competition that, in his eyes, has changed in nature.
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PublishedNobody believed in it… How six students built one of the wildest tournaments in sevens
Created by six students in 2005, the Centrale Sevens has become, in twenty years, an unmissable date in the sevens calendar. In Orsay, a handful of engineering students have turned a university party into an international shop window. Between elite rugby, atmosphere and social commitment, an immersion in a tournament like no other.
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PublishedLeave to come back better? From La Réunion to the LOU, Anthony Calteau and the exile it takes to progress
On La Réunion, you often have to leave in order to become a rugby player. Anthony Calteau did just that. Now president, coach and still a player at L'Étang-Salé, he embodies a generation that has come home to pass on what it learned elsewhere. Portrait of a round trip turned into doctrine.
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PublishedA “European Cup”, ambitions and showcasing talent… what is the Indian Ocean Rugby Aroi really for?
It is a competition: structured, organised, conceived as a European Cup. And yet, behind the stated ambition of raising the profile of rugby in the Indian Ocean region, one question demands an answer: what is the Indian Ocean Rugby Aroi really for?
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PublishedFake blood, real shame: the day Harlequins tipped into one of the most staggering scandals in European Cup history
A Heineken Cup quarter-final, a tight scoreline, a tense finish and, in the shadows, a manipulation worthy of a bad crime novel. On 12 April 2009, against Leinster Rugby, Harlequins did not merely lose a match. They left an indelible mark on the history of European rugby, that of an organised system of cheating, as grotesque as it was methodical. Looking back.
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PublishedOpening rugby up to “the whole world”, the crazy challenge of Rugby club Dignois
In the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Rugby club Dignois, who have just secured their survival in Fédérale 3, have blown rugby's borders wide open. A Fijian network, an unofficial World Cup, social inclusion and raw passion. Inside an anomaly that became a model.
