Short answer, no. Weapon touches typically do not hurt when playing correctly. Fencing is one of the safest Olympic sports, but like in any sport, injuries can occur. Fencers are at most risk of ...

My first introduction to the art of fencing was through my sister Joanna, who at 44, began taking fencing lessons at the Escrime Mont-Royal fencing club. Other than the Olympics, my knowledge of ...

Individual fencing events at the Olympic Games utilize a single-elimination, bracket-style format where fencers must win head-to-head bouts to advance to the next round. Fencers are initially seeded ...

Fencing is one of the original Olympic sports, dating back to the first modern games in 1896 ... Classes are held at the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen and the Community Art Center in Glenwood ...

PARIS--France had been hoping for torrent of fencing golds at the Paris Olympics but despite winning ... when only four nations competed in fencing, the sport had been predominantly Eurocentric ...

Peter Westbrook was the first African-American and Asian-American to medal in Olympic fencing, later launching a foundation to increase representation in the sport. Peter Westbrook, a ...

The Japanese Fencing Federation embarked on an ambitious project to develop foil fencers ahead of the Beijing Olympics, where Yuki Ota clinched Japan’s first medal in the sport. Atsushi ...