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**UvgpXK0J** · 09-01-2012, 05:41 AM

For me, the biggest thing was that France was struggling, but French-trained fencers (Abouelkassim, Fernandez, Ali, Samandi, both the Besbes girls, apparently the Koreans too) were doing rather well.

Like I said on another thread, the French aren't struggling. They just had one off competition, which lacked at least one, if not two, events where they would've expected to be in with a shout of the medals. You can't say the whole system is falling down just on one tournament.

09-01-2012, 05:41 AM	#5
UvgpXK0J Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	For me, the biggest thing was that France was struggling, but French-trained fencers (Abouelkassim, Fernandez, Ali, Samandi, both the Besbes girls, apparently the Koreans too) were doing rather well. Like I said on another thread, the French aren't struggling. They just had one off competition, which lacked at least one, if not two, events where they would've expected to be in with a shout of the medals. You can't say the whole system is falling down just on one tournament.
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