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French Olympic fencer’s smartphone falls out of his pocket mid-match at Rio 2016

Published 18:49 9 Aug 2016 BST

Darragh Murphy
French Olympic fencer’s smartphone falls out of his pocket mid-match at Rio 2016

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If anything sums up the modern world, it's this.

We know that regular people like you and I tend to struggle to last minutes without having their smartphone within arm's reach. But one would imagine that Olympic athletes, competing at the top level of world sport and living the most important fortnight of their lives, would be able to at least leave their smartphones in their dressing rooms. Perhaps the several robberies in Rio is what prompted French fencer Enzo LeFort to make sure he kept his phone on his person. Or maybe he's just one of the many, many twenty-somethings who have a crippling addiction to Pokemon Go. Either way, he prompted many a raised eyebrow when his smartphone popped out of his back pocket while he faced off with Germany's Peter Joppich at the weekend. Bad news - LeFort lost the match. Good news - his phone appears to have survived the embarrassing drop. snapchat

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French Olympic fencer's smartphone falls out of his pocket mid-match at Rio 2016