Fencing, the sport of sword fighting ... Fencing is composed of three disciplines: foil, épée and sabre. Each discipline has its own unique set of rules, and most competitive fencers will ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SABRES CLASHING) LEMOULT: In the other two fencing sports, foil and epee, you have to touch with the tip of the blade to score a point, Dershwitz explains. ELI DERSHWITZ: In sabre ...

When did fencing become an Olympic sport? Fencing made its Olympic debut ... the épée and the sabre. The foil and epee are pointed weapons and fencers use a thrusting motion to score.

There have been a lot of great performers representing the sabre weapon on the strip this season, many of whom will be competing in the State Individual Tournament, and others that are fencing in ...

The sabre is the only fencing weapon with a guard that fully covers the hand ... Fencers wear white uniforms because, in the pre-electric days of the sport, touches were determined by an ink spot left ...

An American has never won a gold in men’s individual sabre. William Grebe ... never be introduced to the sport. “I wouldn’t have found an access point to fencing without Peter, so I probably ...

As a result, fencing has become an ultraniche sport—and, perhaps unfairly ... your precious Jesse Winker go up to the plate with a sabre instead of a bat. He wouldn’t even know a parry ...

PARIS, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Ukraine claimed the gold medal in the women's sabre team event as they rallied ... "One year ago I was almost done with fencing. This story has had a very good ending ...

First-year fencer Nisha Hild was the story this weekend for Northwestern at USA Fencing's April North American Cup. She came in first place in the Junior Women's Sabre after entering as the No. 20 ...

PARIS - Three-time men's sabre champion Aron Szilagyi suffered a surprise defeat to a debutant in Paris on July 27, ending his dream of becoming the only sixth Olympian to win the same individual ...

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A decorated squad of Korean fencers are headed to the Paris Olympics where they will face off against powerful European counterparts as France, one of the most successful nations in the sport ...