RIO DE JANEIRO — Ibtihaj Muhammad came to the Olympics determined to show the world that Muslim-American women can excel in sports. Muhammad will return home to New Jersey with proof that she was ...
Farès Ferjani, who won the silver medal Men’s Individual Sabre for Tunisia, trained for the Paris Olympics at the Manhattan Fencing Center, coached by Yury Gelman and Colin Heathcock. An elegant ...
ATHENS — The first women’s Olympic sabre fencing champion has a long blond ponytail, an irrepressible smile and the quickness and guts of a cat burglar. She also has a remarkable story to tell. “It’s ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Former Temple University fencer Kamali Thompson is one event away from competing in the Olympics and she's two weeks away from graduating Rutgers Medical school as an orthopedic ...
CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) -Top-ranked South Korea cruised to victory in the men’s team fencing final against Italy on Wednesday, retaining the title they won at the 2012 London Olympics – the last time ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Russia’s women fencers won their second consecutive Olympic gold medal in the team sabre event on Saturday, beating France 45-41 in a tense final. France refused to hand an easy win ...
The Egyptian men’s sabre fencing team has won the Sabre Fencing World Cup title for the first time in its history after defeating Hungary, the host nation of the tournament, in the final match with a ...
The United States’ Daryl Homer in action against Aron Szilagyi of Hungary during the men’s sabre individual gold medal bout. (Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA) Daryl Homer fell short of becoming the first male ...