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Laporte rides the outcry over £7m loss

DAVID BARNES

Dogged: Bernard Laporte is still fighting to stage the 2023 World Cup in France

”Laporte asked an annual meeting of clubs in Agen to approve the French Rugby Federation accounts”
French rugby supremo Bernard Laporte loves a fight against the odds.
Always has done since surviving a 75mph car crash as a young man.
That violent collision with a tree left him in a coma for a week with doctors telling him his dreams of playing rugby were over.
After weeping his heart out, he ordered numerous books with the aim of equipping himself to be a coach.
Laporte never take...

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