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... that when young, Olympic fencer Victor Alvares de Oliveira was told by doctors he had little chance to compete in the sport due to his severe asthma?
Source: Olympics.com ("Severe asthma meant Alvares de Oliveira had to spend large portions of his formative years in the confines of paediatric wards ... Despite doctors giving him little to no chance of ever practising sport seriously, the young boy ended up as a fencer")
ALT1: ... that Victor Alvares de Oliveira is Cape Verde's first Olympic fencer – and the country's first-ever professional fencer at all? Source: Olympics.com ("To add to this real-life fairytale, he will represent his father’s birth country, Cape Verde, at Paris 2024, becoming the African nation's first-ever fencer at the Olympic Games ... By the end of 2019, Alvares de Oliveira started competing for Cape Verde on the World Cup circuit, becoming the first professional fencer to fight for the tiny nation with a population of 600,000 people")
