Fencing has been part of every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Olympics in Athens. Fencing’s origins can be found in swordplay, which has been practiced ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games, head to our latest updates. PARIS — U.S. women wrapped up Olympic fencing competitions with a first-ever team ...

Fencing has all the makings of something deeply and unarguably cool. It requires the coordination of a gymnast, but the strategy of a chess player. It's fast-paced ...

PARIS, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's newly crowned Olympic champion Vivian Kong announced on Sunday she would say goodbye to her fencing career. "After competing in my third Olympics, I have decided ...

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When Greg Domashovetz, owner and coach for the Roaring Fork Fencers Club, sought to bring in a major name from USA Fencing for a localized fencing camp in Aspen, he wasn’t seeking an Olympic gold ...

Fencing kicks off Day 1 of the Olympics with the women competing in the individual epee event. In the epee discipline, a touch, or point, can only be scored by the tip of the sword and the entire body ...

Peter Westbrook of the Peter Westbrook Foundation at the Fencers Club in Manhattan, New York is pictured on Saturday, December 7, 2019. (Clarissa Sosin / New York Daily News via Getty Images) Clarissa ...