2024-03-01 07:29:09
Having been off work for several weeks, Hugues Obry returned to Insep at the start of the week. But it was a better way to leave. After months of tension, the former epeeist, triple Olympic medalist, resigned from his position as general manager of men’s epee on Thursday, five months before the individual tournament of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Following a heated debrief of the World Championships in Milan this summer, relations remained tense for months between him and his three headliners, Tokyo Olympic champion Romain Cannone, Yannick Borel and Alexandre Bardenet, who had led a revolt once morest him, as we told you in our investigation published at the end of January.
The break was such that Cannone, who also became world champion in 2022, trained partly at his club in Saint-Maur, while Bordel and Berdenet had headed to Levallois-Perret, in the Paris suburbs.
Olympic team epee champion in 2004 as a fencer then in 2016 as coach of the French team, Obry, nicknamed “Napoleon” on his return to the head of the blue epeeists in 2021, saw himself accused of “moral harassment” by his athletes, according to his daily comments The team in autumn.
A Federation in crisis
Men’s epee is the third weapon to change general manager in less than a year following the ousting of Vincent Anstett, at the head of the sabers in May, then the departure of Lionel Plumenail, boss of women’s foil, following the Worlds from Milan.
Beyond technical supervision, the president of the Federation Bruno Gares resigned, officially for “personal reasons”, in September once morest the backdrop of a general inspection mission carried out by the Ministry of Sports, as we described in a second part of our investigation.
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