PARIS, France — Magda Skarbonkiewicz of Beaverton competed in her first Olympic Games as a fencer, where she was eliminated in the round-of-32 bouts on Monday. Skarbonkiewicz was matched against ...

RIDGEWOOD — If you want to understand U.S. Olympic saber fencing, Ridgewood native and team member Mitchell Saron suggests you review the "Star Wars" movies. "A fun fact is that the Sith Lords like ...

Joseph S. Streb, a 2015 inductee to the New Philadelphia High School Athletic Hall Of Fame, won his sixth national championship by earning the gold medal in saber at the 2022 U. S. Fencing National ...

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 ...

A group from Northwest Florida is headed to Washington D.C. this weekend for a cutting edge competition, in a sport that's straight out of the movies. LED saber fencing is a sport with a serious ...

Rolling down the Seine River in the 2024 Olympics opening ceremonies and collecting swag made for a remarkable day, but didn’t sway the focus of Park Ridge’s Filip Dolegiewicz from the reason he was ...

Fencing, the sport of sword fighting, is played on a 14-meter-long metal strip known as a piste. A competition between two fencers is called a bout. Fencers earn points in a bout by scoring touches on ...

Horrific, piercing screeches filled the Grand Ballroom of the New York Marriott in Brooklyn on Saturday. Women lunged at women. Men lunged at men. No worries. This was just a hectic athletic ...

Fencing might be the coolest sport you aren’t paying attention to at the Olympics. Even knowing nothing about the sport, spectators can expect quick action resulting in high-scoring matches. But ...

American women swept the medals in saber fencing today. Mariel Zagunis won America’s first gold medal. First, she had to overcome Becca Ward, 15-11, in the semifinals. Mariel then triumphed over ...