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Rugby is king in France’s oval world

The Saint-Sulpice-sur-Leze players wash away the sins of the previous 80 minutes. (Photo: AFP)

PARIS: There is a region in south-west France where the walls of bars and bedrooms are adorned not with pictures of Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele but Antoine Dupont, Cyril Baille and Romain Ntamack.

This is the ‘Ovalie’, a region where rugby is king, the world of the oval ball.

The village of Saint-Sulpice-sur-Leze, which dates from the 13th century and lies around 30…

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