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Originally Posted by copeab
Government agents as Olympic fencers in 1936.
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I knew a chap who would certainly have been on the British fencing team in the 1940 Olympics, had they happened. He was almost recruited for what was probably SOE, but the chap who came round to give him the talk (he was a student at Oxford at the time) saw the large poster of Karl Marx on the wall and talked about something else instead. He then went to India with the Signals as a dispatch rider, and got crippled (he insisted on the term) by an experimental polio vaccine. And that wasn't even the important part of his life.