PORTRAIT – This Sunday at 5:45 p.m. on France 2, the “Stade 2” journalist and rugby commentator returns to the air after four months of absence due to a recurrence of knee cancer.
“I’m giving myself the whole summer to acclimatize to my new mobility and eventually be able to attend the opening match of the World Cup as a supporter of the French XV”had declared Matthew Lartot by announcing his recurrence of knee cancer last April. The sports journalist from France Televisions will have surped his objective since he will be a sports commentator from September 10 during the South Africa-Scotland match.
As a high-level athlete, the voice of rugby France 2ures “having conditioned oneself mentally and having exceeded one’s limits” to win a second time against the disease. Because history unfortunately repeated itself twenty-six years later at the end of the Six Nations Tournament last February. “I had not at all imagined at that time that I was experiencing a relapse”, he confides after having nevertheless felt severe pain during the European competition. A long journey then follows…
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