page_title: Laura Flessel-Colovic
section_title: Media and television
hierarchical_section_title: Laura Flessel-Colovic / Sports consultant and other activities / Media and television
caption_attribution_description: English: French fencer Laura Flessel-Colovic at a press conference of the French Fencing Federation in Paris, before the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Français&#160;: Laura Flessel-Colovic à une conférence de presse de la Fédération française d'escrime à Paris, avant les jeux Olympiques de Londres.
context_page_description: Laura Flessel-Colovic is a French politician and épée fencer who served as Minister of Sports from 2017 to 2018. Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, she has won the most Olympic medals of any French sportswoman, with five. Before 2007, she was a member of the Levallois Sporting Club Escrime, and now works with Lagardère Paris Racing. She is married and has one daughter.
  She was France's flag-bearer at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London, which was her fifth and last Olympics.
  She was appointed Minister of Sports in the Philippe Government on 17 May 2017 and resigned on 4 September 2018.
context_section_description: In 2008, Laura Flessel was a columnist for the daily newspaper Aujourd'hui Sport.
  She was a contestant on the third season of Danse avec les stars.
  During the 2016 Summer Olympics she commented, on Canal +, the opening ceremony with Stéphane Guy and Joris Sabi, the fencing events with Frédéric Roullier and the closing ceremony with Julien Fébreau and Jean Galfione.
caption: Laura Flessel in 2012
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