Coaches embraced Choi’s unorthodox fencing style as Hongkonger confounded convention
A colourful celebration could be on the cards for Hong Kong’s Ryan Choi Chun-yin after the newly crowned fencing world champion was challenged by his coaches to mark his achievement with a “rainbow” hairstyle.
Yet Choi, 27, has already revealed a new side to himself, the coaches told the Post, having helped to transform him from an outsider only weeks ago to best on the planet in Georgia last week.
Maurizio Zomparelli and Giacomo Fanizza, the city’s foil coaches, respectively dyed their hair and beard pink last month when Choi won his first senior international title at the Shanghai Grand Prix.
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