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 ...

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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 ...

Few of us might have actually sat through a fencing bout. And fewer still might be able to name a fencer, if asked to. CA Bhavani Devi hadn't heard of the sport until it was introduced in her school ...

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 ...

When two kids find a couple of sticks, what’s the first thing they do? Pretend the sticks are swords and they are swashbuckling pirates or knights of old. The desire to whack sticks together seems so ...