Which fencing foil is best? Originally practiced as a form of dueling, fencing has been around for hundreds of years. There are three main weapons used in the sport, each with its own rules and style: ...

Lee Kiefer is now the most decorated U.S. foil fencer with three gold medals thanks to the win Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2015 and coordinates with ...

Canada won gold in the women's team foil fencing competition with a 38-37 win over the United States on Saturday at the Pan American Games. The team of Calgary's Alanna Goldie, Hamilton's Eleanor ...

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 modern version of the dueling rapier, the foil is perhaps the best known fencing apparatus. The teaching weapon for the ...

Lee Kiefer won a second Olympic gold medal in foil fencing, defeating 21-year-old Harvard student and U.S. teammate Lauren Scruggs 15-6 in the final match at the 2024 Paris Games. Kiefer, a ...

Lauren Scruggs already had a silver medal. Now she's got Paris Olympics gold. It's the first gold medal for the U.S. in Olympic team fencing events in history. Team USA earned silver once, in 2008.

The foil is one of the three disciplines of Olympic fencing, alongside the saber and the epee. It is a discipline characterized by specific rules that determine how and when a point is awarded. Here ...

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The Tokyo Olympics will start in just over two weeks, Nick Itkin will represent the U.S. in foil fencing. There are three types of fencing — foil, epee and sabre — and they each have different rules.

Among Georgian athletes, a new generation is increasingly emerging: one that proudly represents the country on the ...