As the top 14 final unfolds tonight, Matthieu Lartot updated on Instagram in a post on Thursday. The host of France 2, suffering from cancer at 43, wants to be reassuring.
To his followers, he writes, “It’s rocking time… After two months of chemo, serial PET scans, a mess of MRIs, weekly blood draws and everything… the fires are on. green, and that’s already a very good thing in this long battle,” he said.
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Last April, he announced that he was “forced” to move away from the antenna. “Twenty-six years later, history unfortunately stutters”, explained the former scrum-half of AS Mantes (Yvelines), who discovered a tumor in his knee by injuring himself during a match at 16 years old and carries since a prosthesis between the femur and the tibia.
Awaiting an amputation of his right leg to facilitate his recovery, the rugby specialist explained Thursday that “the second half of the protocol” was about to begin. If he does not hide that it “will be tough”, he explains that he is embarking on this new ordeal “with strength and determination”.
With the desire to “come back to share [his] passion for sport”, he wanted to thank the people who send him “countless” messages of support. Gestures that “force him to redouble his efforts”, as well as the support of his entourage, which he describes as “extraordinary” and a source of “a lot of energy and love”.
He concluded his message with a promise, always accompanied by a reference to his favorite sport: “I love the third half so much that you can count on me to give it your all. ยป
The sports enthusiast has only one goal in mind: to be able to attend the opening match of the World Cup as a supporter of the XV of France in September. Matthieu Lartot therefore gives himself all summer to acclimatize to his “new mobility” after his amputation which he described as a “matter of survival” and hopes that the surgery will put an end to this disease.