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Manon Brunet won the all-French women’s sabre final against Sara Balzer to take fencing gold at the Paris Games on Monday. Brunet defeated her team-mate 15-12, improving from her third place result at Tokyo 2020. Bronze went to 2008 Beijing champion Olga Kharlan, who claimed the first medal for Ukraine in Paris after defeating South Korea’s Choi Sibin 15-13. “I hope some little girl sees me and, in the future, she will know and want to be an Olympic champion, a five-time Olympic medallist,” she said. “I brought a medal to my country, and it’s the first one. And it’s going to be a good start fo…

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