Paris (AFP)
The forty-two training sessions are over, but the players of the XV of France were able to count on their rugby seven-a-side counterparts during an opposition conducted in the rain, the high point of the day on Saturday in Nice .
One week before the opening match of the Six Nations Tournament, against Italy in Rome on February 6, the Federation (FFR) and the League (LNR) have formalized a new agreement to reduce the group.
Currently twenty-eight in their bubble of Nice, the Blues can not be more than thirty-one until the end of the competition (March 20).
A decision taken to reduce the return trips of players between Nice and the clubs and thus limit the risks of contamination with the coronavirus.
"But today we are lucky to have the French team at VII (also in training in the Alpes-Maritimes) participating in our training. So we manage to fill this lack of players", explained the third Bordeaux line Cameron Woki, during a videoconference press point.
The French septists, weaned from competition for nearly a year due to the health context, had already been involved from October to December in Marcoussis, where the XV of France had prepared the autumn tests.
Saturday, the day was placed under the sign of "high intensity", according to the terms of the framework.
Before the opposition "with real bullets", the twenty-eight French fifteen players worked in small groups in the morning with a good dose of play.
After lunch: treatments, massages then press point for Woki, Montpellier second line Paul Willemse, as well as two Toulonnais, opener Louis Carbonel and winger Gabin Villière.
Sunday, the Blues will undergo in particular a new series of Covid-19 screening tests, the third since their arrival in Nice last Sunday.
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