2023-04-20 06:09:30
He wanted to be behind the announcement. Tuesday April 18, on Instagram, Matthieu Lartot announced his temporary withdrawal from television sets due to a recurrence of knee cancer. “For three weeks I knew that this moment would arrive. Today I am forced to move away from the air to get back into the ring and fight cancer a second time ! “wrote the sports journalist on the social network. “26 years later, history unfortunately stutters,” added the commentator of the XV of France matches on France Télévisions and presenter of Stage 2.
Now 43 years old, Matthieu Lartot had already suffered from this cancer at the age of 16: “There was 1-5% chance of it happening and it happened. It will shake very hard but I am ready and very well surrounded. Before concluding: “I will never be very far from the fields and the teams of @francetvsport And like the blues, my only goal in 2023 is victory. So, see you soon. Long live sport and long live rugby.
In June 2020, he returned to the tumor he suffered as a teenager on the set of “It starts today”. Since that time, he has suffered from an invisible handicap and can only bend his right leg at 20, 30 degrees. “I was operated very young during my adolescence following a tumor, un sarcome synovial. It is a daily handicap. I limp. There are days when it hurts. I have no joints at all, ”he explained on the France 2 set. This tumor was discovered following a rugby accident.
A nosocomial infection
Matthieu Lartot was operated on the day before his 18th birthday and had to learn to live with a titanium prosthesis between the femur and the tibia. Because of a infection nosocomialehe had been operated on once more: “I have one leg that is 2.5 centimeters shorter than the other. […] It’s the hardest part of the ordeal because there for once I’m going to have serious consequences because I stay in bed for five months, I can’t move. I can’t get up myself, they have to wash me with a glove. It’s a time when you say to yourself, How can I get out of this? “.
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