On Sunday in Paris, with a flick of the wrist and an exultant scream, a 30-year-old medical student named Lee Kiefer made history when she became the first American fencer to win gold medals in foil ...

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 ...

BERNARDS TWP. - The boys epee squad and girls foil and epee teams turned in dominating performances from the get-go to power ...

PARIS — Two American women squared up for a sword fight in the palace at dusk. Both emerged with Olympic medals. This, the Grand Palais in the center of the French capital, was the stage for the women ...

If it wasn’t for the masked men in white uniforms lunging to hit each other with long, silver blades, the fencing crowd in Paris’ Grand Palais could’ve been mistaken for that at an NFL game. The ...

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 ...

PARIS — Lee Kiefer won back-to-back gold medals in foil fencing and her teammate Lauren Scruggs took the silver Sunday to make history as the first Black fencer to win an Olympic medal in an ...

A few days into the fencing competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Team USA has already earned two medals. Americans Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs battled it out in the women's individual foil finals ...

Olympic fencing at Paris 2024 brought enough drama to last us four years. Here are the biggest stories plus all the replays, ...

There have been a lot of great performers representing the foil weapon on the strip this season, many of whom will be competing in the State Individual Tournament, and others that are fencing in their ...

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. This is FTW Explains: The Olympics. Olympic fencer Kat Holmes wants more for herself when the ...