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Stephanie Apstein

18-Year-Old Fencer Colin Heathcock Is Ready to Bring Home Gold for Team USA

Fencer Colin Heathcock will compete in his first Olympics in Paris, in both the individual and team events in men's sabre. | Al Bello/Getty Images

It’s the perfect story: American who moved to France to pursue fencing makes the Olympic team and gets to compete in essentially a home game this summer in Paris. 

Well, to everyone except Colin Heathcock himself. “I haven’t really thought anything about the Olympics location,” he admits. “Because I never really thought I would even make it, to be honest.”

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