It was a tale of two social media posts. Two men. Two different sports. Both faced similar dilemmas: whether to play important games or sit them out to support their female partners through their fertility journey.
French lock Thibaud Flament intends to skip the Six Nations opener against Ireland in order to undergo fertility treatment with his wife. Meanwhile, Dingle GAA goalkeeper Gavin Curran missed the birth of his first child to line out at the All-Ireland club football final earlier this month.
Flament explained it wasn’t a simple case of fiddling his Google calendar around to rearrange treatment. “The timing is based on the menstrual cycle of women, with a whole protocol around it,” he told French newspaper…