Five months before the Paris Olympic Games, men’s epee no longer has a general manager following the resignation of Hugues Obry, said the French Fencing Federation (FFE). Relations had been tense for months between him and his three headliners, the Tokyo Olympic champion, Romain Cannone, Yannick Borel and Alexandre Bardenet. Hugues Obry had been off work for several weeks. Olympic team epee champion in 2004 as a fencer then in 2016 as coach of the French team before leaving for China, was accused of “ moral harassment » by his athletes, according to his comments to the daily L’Équipe in the fall. However, he had started his mandate well, bringing back gold from the Worlds to Cairo in 2022 in teams and individually (Cannone).
Hugues Obry leaves his position as general manager of the French men’s epee team
