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Dupont’s strength defies all science

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BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Where to start with Antoine Dupont’s extraordinary try saving tackle on Ireland wing Mack Hansen at the Aviva?
It goes straight in as joint top of my list of all-time try saving tackles which I have updated and refined over the years – see below – but, more than that, it was one of the most jaw dropping moments imaginable. Physically, physiologically, scientifically and intuitively it should not have been possible. What Dupont did was extra-terrestrial, not of this world.
The strapping Hansen – 6ft 3in and n...

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