Paris 2024 Olympic Games: its coach Hugues Obry on sick leave, men's epee fencing still in crisis. The manager of the French men’s epee team has been on sickLeave since the beginning of February, amid tensions with his athletes.

The Blues in men'sEpee, led by reigning Olympic champion Romain Cannone, are heading to southern Germany this week to compete in a round of the Specialty World Cup on Friday and Saturday. But the tricolors will cross the Rhine without their boss, Hugue Obry.