Little used in Castres, Olympic champion Antoine Zeghdar will leave the CO to find his favorite discipline, rugby at 7.
One day, a year after the gold medal conquered at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games by the French rugby team at 7, one of its heroes decided to slam the door of the Top 14 to return to its favorite game. “The year I spent with France 7 was the most fulfilling in my life. I really took a liking to this sport ”has readily recognized Antoine Zeghdar in an interview with
Olympic Midi. During this interview, the winger revealed his re -engagement to the French Rugby Federation in order to devote himself fully to rugby at 7.
“I signed a year but my goal is to go to the Los Angeles Olympics. Afterwards, we’ll see. There is a time for everything. For the time being, the 7th, that’s what I want to do. We could not be clear from Castres, whose past season has turned into a nightmare from a personal point of view. “It did not go at best: I resumed late and being injured, I missed a lot of training and I played little as much as, as it was planned, I made a few round trips on stages at 7. This is not how I wanted it to happen,” analyzed the Olympic champion.
Relegated to a lining role, Antoine Zeghdar only played four games (three in Top 14 and one in Champions Cup) with the CO, of which only one match in the skin of an holder and that had not specially went for him. As part of the 22nd day of Top 14 during the correction received against the neighbor, the Toulouse stadium (52-6), it had received a yellow card. In total, he only played 92 minutes in the Tarnais jersey.
