A few months before the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France, commentator Matthieu Lartot announced on social media that he was taking a break from his career to fight cancer.
This Tuesday, April 18, Matthieu Lartot, the star rugby commentator on the antennas of France TV Sport and presenter of Stage 2, announced that he was putting his career on hold to treat a relapse of his cancer. It was on social networks that the journalist announced the news in a long text.
“Since nowadays everything is known, as much as it is me who announces it to you. For three weeks, I knew that this moment would arrive. Today I am forced to move away from the antenna to get back into the ring and fight cancer a second time! 26 years later, the story unfortunately stutters. There was a 1 to 5% chance of it happening and it did. It’s going to shake very hard but I’m ready and very well surrounded. I will never be very far from the pitches and teams of France TV Sports. And like Les Bleus, my only objective in 2023 is to win.”
Matthieu Lartot suffers from knee cancer, a relapse of his tumor in the joint when he was 16 years old after an injury during a rugby match. The commentator had confided in Paris Match in 2020 on the diagnosis of his cancer. “We thought it was a sprained knee and from there a mass appeared inside my knee. We could have missed it and it was developing in silence and it was more serious”.
