The French Olympic and world champion is a man of many other talents who says he ‘always sees my glass as half full’

After winning the first of his three Olympic medals in Rio in 2016, fencer Enzo Lefort hung around in the Brazilian city for nine more days.

“I partied for eight of them,” said Lefort, who won a silver in the team foil event in Brazil. “The day we got the medal, I went to the French house and partied until 6am; I got back to the village at 7.”

Last year, in a Paris Olympics competition staged a few kilometres from his apartment, Lefort lost the closing three points in a 15-14 quarter-final defeat by Hong Kong’s Cheung Ka-long.

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