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Both brothers trained at the fencing club ASPTT Dijon. Yémi earned a bronze medal in the U13 national championships and then became a national champion in the cadet (U17) category. He joined the junior national team for the 2007 Junior
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team event. However, he was not chosen for the senior team and gave up competition to focus on his
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in the semifinals of the
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