In conflict for many months with the DTN, the three headliners – Cannone, Borel and Bardenet – had slammed the door of Insep. Three months before the Games, and despite a desire for appeasement, tensions persist.
You had to know how to read the knowing smiles and the eyes raised to the sky; observe his hands fiddling or his legs twitching. You also had to have a little imagination to fill in the gaps in the sentences or imagine what these regularly released jokers were hiding. Such was the strange atmosphere, all of hushed tension, of permanent concentration so as not to add fuel to the fire, this Tuesday in the weapons room dedicated to the sword of the Insep, the flagship of the Olympic preparation failed in the Bois de Vincennes. In front of the media, the elite of the men’s discipline took turns – Romain Cannone, the Tokyo Olympic champion, Yannick Borel, the veteran with the breastplate covered in medals, Alexandre Bardenet, the model teammate when it comes to scrapping as a team – and those who must lead them to the Olympic grail during the Paris Games: the DTN Jean-Yves Robin and the new manager of the epeeists, Gauthier Grumier, with an XXL prize list. Two camps…
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