With a flash of the blade, Iron Maiden rocker Bruce Dickinson made his mark on a current fencing event in France.
The British singer, 66, placed 13th within the Circuit Européen 2025 event in Fâches-Thumesnil, which occurred from Jan. 18-19. He competed alongside 30 different members within the prestigious veterans’ competitors.
Dickinson, a longtime fencer who within the Eighties educated with the British Olympic squad, received his first match in opposition to Danish fencer Simon Jeiner. He finally misplaced to Pascal Jolyot, a French fencer with three Olympic medals, together with one gold, underneath his belt.
“He’s not dangerous,” Dickinson joked of Jolyot to La Voix du Nord.
Video shared to the Instagram fan web page Eddie the Head fan Membership reveals Dickinson practising and competing in shiny crimson footwear.
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The “Run to the Hills” singer instructed The Times in February 2024 that he fences about 4 occasions every week, and has switched from the fast-paced foil fencing to épée, because it’s “extra tactical.”
“I’ve discovered a tremendous membership in France, filled with unimaginable fencers who all kick my arse,” he instructed the outlet. “It offers me one thing to purpose for — I wish to get to the stage the place solely 75 % of them kick my arse!”
Dickinson, whose spouse Leana Dolci is French, has a number of different hobbies except for music. The star can also be a pilot who as soon as labored for Astraeus Airways, and has his personal line of beer with Robinsons Brewery known as Trooper.
In 2014, Dickinson was recognized with throat most cancers, however obtained the all-clear the subsequent yr after almost three dozen radiation classes and weeks of chemotherapy.
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“I actually recognize on daily basis, however that signifies that on daily basis I’ve to do one thing, even when it’s consciously doing nothing — a minimum of do one thing consciously,” he instructed Rolling Stone in March. “Once I did my collection of one-man reveals across the States nearly two years in the past, I made up a T-shirt that stated, ‘Life is best than all the opposite choices.’ And if I had a mantra to dwell by, that may be it.”
The rocker added he was “fortunate that I can nonetheless sing.”
Iron Maiden, which Dickinson rejoined in 1999 following a quick hiatus, introduced the Run For Your Lives world tour in September.
The stadium, pageant and enviornment tour dates will kick off in Might in Budapest and can run by means of August.
