Marconnet World Cup doubt
ByTNT Sports
France prop Sylvain Marconnet's World Cup hopes are looking bleak after he was told he would not be able to return to training before August.
Marconnet fractured his fibula and tibia in a skiing accident and underwent surgery on Tuesday night but surgeon Phillippe Landreau has predicted the 30-year-old will be out of action for at least five months.
"The facture was a big one, quite complex," Landreau said.
"Fortunately it is not an open fracture. For a simple fracture, it is three months [out of action]. After a fracture like this one, in order to have a proper strengthening of the bone, it is a minimum of three months, but perhaps more.
"But to recover completely it is six months. And six months - that is September 6th, when France play Argentina.
"We have spoken to Sylvain about it and he has made his calculations. That Sylvain will have recovered in six months I have no doubt. But what state will he be in?"
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