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 ...

Rosy Cepero broke the Johns Hopkins record for career Foil wins, and the Blue Jays won four of five matches at the Miller ...

— Olga Kharlan, Ukraine: One of Ukraine’s best hopes for Olympic success against the backdrop of war, Kharlan had a unique route to the Paris Games. Kharlan was drawn against Russian fencer Anna ...

PARIS—Jackie Dubrovich, CC ’16, and her teammates took home Olympic gold from the women’s foil fencing team event on Thursday night. Her victory marks a historic moment for the United States, as it is ...

It’s back-to-back gold medals for Lexington’s Lee Kiefer after she defeated fellow American Lauren Scruggs 15-6 in the women’s individual foil fencing finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on ...

PARIS − A pair of American women fencers on Sunday night won a pair of coveted Olympic medals – one gold and one silver. Lee Kiefer beat teammate Lauren Scruggs at the Paris Games in the final bout of ...

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 ...

Lee Kiefer became the first American fencer to win three Olympic gold medals as the U.S. got its first-ever team fencing gold in women's foil at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. The team of two-time ...

The Italians weren't going to let them lead the entire match. Guillaume Bianchi of Italy won a slight 20-18 advantage over Shikine in the fourth bout. Bianchi's teammate, Tommaso Marini held this lead ...

Men’s and women’s fencing went undefeated in their first home meet of the season in the Columbia Invitational, hosted in Dodge Fitness Center on Nov. 22. The Lions replicated their excellent ...

The score is 14-14. You lunge into an attack, feel your point hit the target, hear the referee call “halt” and see the two lights on the board. Your opponent’s light doesn’t matter, because you know ...

— Olga Kharlan, Ukraine: One of Ukraine’s best hopes for Olympic success against the backdrop of war, Kharlan had a unique route to the Paris Games. Kharlan was drawn against Russian fencer Anna ...