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Can Dupont be an Olympic sevens star?

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England rugby union player Mo Hunt is sure France captain Antoine Dupont will 鈥渟tand out鈥 when he focuses on the World Rugby Sevens Series in 2024 with a view to playing at a home Olympic Games in Paris. The Toulouse scrum-half will miss the 2024 Six Nations to focus on rugby sevens in order to purse his Olympic dream. But how straight-forward is making the transition from the 15-a-side game to rugby sevens? England international Mo Hunt 鈥 who is a World Cup winner in the 15-a-side game and also represented Great Britain at sevens at the Olympics and England at the Commonwealth Games 鈥 speaks to Sport Today鈥檚 John Bennett about how Dupont will find the transition. Image: France's scrum-half and captain Antoine Dupont (L) passes the ball out from a ruck during the France 2023 Rugby World Cup quarter-final match between France and South Africa at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, on the outskirts of Paris, on October 15, 2023. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand / AFP via Getty Images)

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