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AARON GRANDIDIER NKANANG

“We’ve got a good chance of winning at our home Olympics”

I WAS INITIATED with the France Sevens development side in 2019, before Covid. After that I began training with the first team as they prepared for the Olympics in Tokyo – but we missed out on that one.

Since then it’s been three years of a new cycle, a fresh group with some experienced players. You could sense that

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