A Canal + cameraman mowed down by two players in the middle of a Top 14 match: a colleague gives news of his state of health

The shock of extremes opposed this Sunday Bordeaux-Bègles, leaders of the classification, to the last, Biarritz, in the Top14 rugby championship. After a rather dull first period, the UBB players ended up winning at home, with a narrow score of 30 to 27. But an incident marked the spirits in the 75th minute of play. Pushed by the defense Basque towards the exit of sidelines, the Bordelais Frederico Mori still managed to register his second try of the day at the end of the line. But in their fall, the players took with them a Canal + cameraman who was a few inches from the goal line. On the slow motion broadcast, we could see that it had been mown at the knee, showing a twist of his supporting leg.

Broke violently and evacuated on a stretcher

Seriously injured, he was finally taken care of by the lawns at the edge of the lawn, before being finally evacuated on a stretcher. The audience of the Chaban-Delmas stadium, very fair and understanding, applauded the unfortunate, after an interruption of the game which lasted several minutes. A few hours after this very painful event for the technician of the encrypted channel, the commentator Nicolas Dupin de Beyssat, who officiated on the antennas of our colleagues last night, wanted to give news of his colleague on Twitter.

The cameraman, who suffers from a fracture, receives a nice collective support

The man, named Olivier, “suffers from a fracture of the tibial plateau”, indicates the sports journalist. And to add that the cameraman will have to follow a convalescence of six weeks, at least. “Full of courage to get back to the field very quickly”, he concludes in his message of solidarity. For his part, the community manager of the show Channel Rugby Club, hosted by Isabelle Ithurburu, had sent her wishes for a speedy recovery to the cameraman via the social network, while emphasizing: “Not all heroes wear shirts”.