Did You Know: the frontman of Iron Maiden almost went to the Olympics...

You may know him as the frontman of the much-loved heavy metal band Iron Maiden, but Bruce Dickinson is a man of many talents, including fencing, which almost got him to the Olympics.

Speaking to the Times, the musician said despite impressing his coaches and becoming a top pick for the Olympics as the seventh-best fencer in Britain, he gave up the sport competitively when he was 23 because he felt silly “fencing 18-year-olds”.

In 2013, he revealed to Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten that he still dabbles in the sport. “I fence because I enjoy it, and the byproduct is that I end up getting in reasonably good shape. Actually, fencing is very similar to the way I run around on stage. Or maybe I run around on stage like that because I fence. Either way, it works for me.”

His most recent update about the sport came in February when he told the Time, he has found an “amazing” club in France.

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