After a season rich in trophies, the Stade Toulousain scrum half returns to rugby union on Saturday for the first time since winning gold with the French sevens team at the Olympics.

   Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou have been held for almost two months on charges of raping a woman with violence on July . The year old athletes arrived at Buenos Aires airport on Tuesday evening and headed for passport control without speaking to the press.

   French national rugby team players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou are under investigation for rape with violence and must remain in the country.

   Since Jérôme Daret took over as head coach in , the French men’s rugby sevens team has continuously progressed, pushing back their limits and culminating in the Olympic gold won on Saturday.

   The French men’s team won against Fiji on Saturday. Les Bleus was bolstered by the star of world rugby.

   Antoine Dupont and his teammates beat the reigning champions at the Stade de France.

   Jaminet also received a , fine. In a video, he had threatened to headbutt ’the first Arab I see.’

   Fiji, despite trailing early in the match, dominated the game and made a strong comeback to secure a victory that propelled them into the quarterfinals.

   Even before the Olympic ceremony, Antoine Dupont’s French sevens kickstarted the Games on Wednesday, with a draw and a victory, in front of a record crowd.

   France, touted as favorites in Olympic rugby sevens, failed to shine on Wednesday, July , while Fiji sparkled during the men’s rugby sevens Pool C match opposing them to the United States.

   Antoine Dupont’s presence ensured a , capacity crowd at the Stade de France, with World Rugby expecting more than half a million fans to attend the six days of sevens action.

   With French national rugby team star Antoine Dupont as its headliner, the discipline, whose tournament kicks off on Wednesday at the Stade de France, aims to use the Olympics to further its development.

   Success for France’s athletes could give the country a renewed sense of celebration, at the end of an anxious period marked by political strife.

   Ahead of the rugby sevens Paris Olympics tournament, starting on Wednesday, the French rugby union hero opens up about the wild challenge of competing in a new discipline at the Olympics.

   Melvyn Jaminet’s racist remarks, the indictment of Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou for aggravated rape in Argentina: Recent incidents involving the French national team have raised questions about the culture of this very masculine sport.

   On Wednesday, the Argentine public prosecutor’s office in Mendoza granted the players’ request for house arrest in the city pending a hearing to determine whether they will await trial in custody or as free men. They face up to years in prison if found guilty.

   Following the events in Argentina, where Melvyn Jaminet made racist remarks and Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou were charged with ’aggravated rape,’ Florian Grill has announced that he intends to increase punishments in the event of misconduct.

   Prosecutors said they had opened an investigation after the player was filmed saying he wanted to attack Arabs.

   The two French national team players remain in pre trial detention in Mendoza, where they have chosen not to make any statement. They are still proclaiming their innocence in a case where two versions of the story contradict each other.

   The two players, Hugo Auradou, , and Oscar Jegou, , have had the charges for which they have been accused upgraded from ’sexual assault’ to ’aggravated rape,’ which is punishable by up to years of imprisonment.