BOURNEMOUTH teenager Joseph Sale has been selected as part of England Fencing's "Tomorrow's Achievers" team to attend an international competition in Paris for the second year running.
Fourteen-year-old Sale, who started fencing when he was eight, was also selected to represent Great Britain in Slovakia in 2007.
The Paris competition is attended by hundreds of fencers, representing more than 20 countries.
Sale's ambition is to fence in the Olympics. He trains regularly at Espada fencing club in Bournemouth and also with the England Fencing TA coach Steve Davey in Aldershot.
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