Graffe, who had been training under Myriam Baverel at the Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance (INSEP) for five years, had only been entered for the competition a month before the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics following the withdrawal due to injury of Gwladys Épangue.
Coached by Yves Kieffer at Pôle France INSEP in Paris, Le Pennec was the French junior national champion in 2002.
INSEP, the National Institute of Sport and Physical Education (Institut national du sport et de l'éducation physique), is a French teacher training institute and center for excellence in sports that trains elite athletes on the outskirts of Paris, France, in the Bois de Vincennes.
Institut de recherche biomédicale et d’épidémiologie du sport (IRMES) is a French public agency dedicated to biomedical and epidemiological studies on sport under the tutorship of INSEP, INSERM, AP-HP, and Paris Descartes University.
He also developed a rational approach of training based on specific physical and energetic measures in situ and studies led in the national institute for sport and physical education (INSEP) in Paris.
In 2000, she moved to Pays d'Aix Natation and joined INSEP in Paris.
After spending eight years at the French National Institute of Sport and Physical Education (INSEP), he left in 2004, wanting better results, despite a team gold medal at the European Fencing Championships in 2002.
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