France at the foot of the team podium at the Paris International Challenge

Clearly, it’s a complicated weekend for the French foil team. Individually, on Saturday, no fencer qualified for the semi-finals of the IPC, Pierre Loisel finishing best Blue in 7th place after his defeat in the quarters. On Sunday, in team play, the French finished fourth, beaten in the bronze medal match by the United States. In this revenge of the Olympics, where France had beaten the Americans to win bronze, Loisel, Maximilien Chastanet, Rafael Savin and Maxime Pauty experienced the opposite scenario, a large defeat (45-33).