| lisward Singapore. July 20 2012 11:06. Posts 838 | Profile Blog # |
2012 London Olympics Fencing
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About Fencing:
Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the recent Olympic Games. The sport of fencing is divided into three weapons:
Foil—a light thrusting weapon that targets the torso, including the back, but not the arms. Touches are scored only with the tip; hits with the side of the blade do not count, and do not halt the action. Touches that land outside of the target area (off-target) stop the action, and are not scored. Only a single hit can be scored by either fencer at one time. If both fencers hit at the same time, the referee uses the rules of right of way to determine which fencer gets the point.
Sabre—a light cutting and thrusting weapon that targets the entire body above the waist, excluding the hands. Hits with the edges of the blade as well as the tip are valid. As in foil, touches which land outside of the target area are not scored. However, unlike foil, these off-target touches do not stop the action, and the fencing continues. In the case of both fencers landing a scoring touch, the referee determines which fencer receives the point for the action, again through the use of "right of way".
Épée—a heavier thrusting weapon that targets the entire body. All hits must be with the tip and not the sides of the blade. Touches hit by the side of the blade do not halt the action. Unlike foil and sabre, Épée does not use right of way, and allows simultaneous hits by both fencers. However, if the score is tied at the last point and a double touch is scored, nobody is awarded the point.
-Wikipedia
Schedule
Events
Athletes
Guide to the Olympic sport of Fencing!
Women's Foil Results!
+ Show Spoiler +Gold - Di Franscica E
Silver - Errigo A
Bronze - Vezzali V
Italy pulls off a clean sweep!
Men's Sabre Results!
+ Show Spoiler +Gold - Aron Szilagyi
Silver - Diego Occhiuzzi
Bronze - Nikolay Kovalev
Women's Epee Reults!
+ Show Spoiler +Gold - SHEMYAKINA Yana
Silver - HEIDEMANN Britta
Bronze - SUN eYuji
No team event for men's epee or women's sabre this yearLast edit: 2012-07-31 13:17:42 |
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| lisward Singapore. July 20 2012 11:06. Posts 838 | Profile Blog # | |
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| GGQ Canada. July 20 2012 11:09. Posts 2466 | Profile Blog # | |
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| galtdunn United States. July 20 2012 11:38. Posts 799 | Profile # |
| My friend does sabre! He'll be watching for sure. |
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| BroodKingEXE United States. July 20 2012 12:34. Posts 798 | Profile Blog # |
Alexander Massialas
He my classmate and he's gonna get gold! DREW represent!
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| Tercotta Canada. July 20 2012 13:24. Posts 393 | Profile Blog # |
Ugh, no Men's Epee Team. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Though no Women's Sabre is a good thing.
Always thought that was kinda the most olympic-y of all the events.Last edit: 2012-07-20 13:28:24 |
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| lisward Singapore. July 20 2012 15:06. Posts 838 | Profile Blog # |
On July 20 2012 12:34 BroodKingEXE wrote:
Alexander Massialas
He my classmate and he's gonna get gold! DREW represent!
He's really good, I got to watch him live at the youth olympics |
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| nohbrows United States. July 20 2012 16:30. Posts 583 | Profile # |
Lovely how the guide leaves out that bit about Right of Way XD. Without it, all the screaming and cursing athletes do after every match doesn't make sense.
Don't follow or spectate fencing much, since it goes by way too fast (Been fencing for four years, still can't follow the action).
But looking forward to all the action! 2008 Beijing olympics got me into fencing. Maybe 2012 will reignite my passion. |
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| lisward Singapore. July 20 2012 17:31. Posts 838 | Profile Blog # |
| Holy crap I'm looking at the Athletes now, that Vietnamese dude that qualified, roflstomped me in the South East Asian Fencing Federation Epee Juniors two years ago in Brunei, he's wickedly sick. |
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| Otolia France. July 20 2012 22:25. Posts 3062 | Profile Blog # |
Once again not having all the competition makes me cringe. There is no reason not to have team competitions for Epée men and Sabre women. In 2008 there was no men fleuret and no women épée. Are they really going to switch it every fucking time ?!
I hope that we get more medals than Italy to finally get ahead of them. |
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| MGN France. July 20 2012 22:33. Posts 271 | Profile # |
| Epee all the way ! Gogo french fencers ! |
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| lisward Singapore. July 20 2012 22:34. Posts 838 | Profile Blog # |
On July 20 2012 22:25 Otolia wrote:
Once again not having all the competition makes me cringe. There is no reason not to have team competitions for Epée men and Sabre women. In 2008 there was no men fleuret and no women épée. Are they really going to switch it every fucking time ?!
I hope that we get more medals than Italy to finally get ahead of them.
Men's Epee team in my opinion is the most exciting event! I'll be cheering for France to win the Men's indiv Epee, but fan of Grumier and the French style of fencing |
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 tree.hugger Saint Paul, MN. July 20 2012 22:50. Posts 8984 | Profile Blog # |
So pumped. Team USA keeps improving year after year, although Beijing will be hard to top in Sabre. But Men's foil is exciting for the first time in forever for the US!
I fenced Race Imboden once, he was already A, and I was E... got destroyed 1-5, BUT I got one touch on a counter with a lot of target contortions. :DLast edit: 2012-07-21 04:12:02 |
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| BroodKingEXE United States. July 21 2012 02:53. Posts 798 | Profile Blog # |
On July 20 2012 17:31 lisward wrote:
Holy crap I'm looking at the Athletes now, that Vietnamese dude that qualified, roflstomped me in the South East Asian Fencing Federation Epee Juniors two years ago in Brunei, he's wickedly sick.
Wasn't the YOG awesome? Its a shame that it didn't get more publicity out of S'Pore. I only went to the Track Events since it was close to where I was staying. Didn't get to see fencing  |
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| Probe1 United States. July 21 2012 04:20. Posts 16445 | Profile Blog # |
| No idea about any of the rules but I'm damned well watching. My grandfather gave me an épée when I was a kid and I love hitting things with it. So fencing has to kick ass by my logic. |
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| lisward Singapore. July 21 2012 12:27. Posts 838 | Profile Blog # |
On July 21 2012 02:53 BroodKingEXE wrote:
Show nested quote +On July 20 2012 17:31 lisward wrote:
Holy crap I'm looking at the Athletes now, that Vietnamese dude that qualified, roflstomped me in the South East Asian Fencing Federation Epee Juniors two years ago in Brunei, he's wickedly sick.
Wasn't the YOG awesome? Its a shame that it didn't get more publicity out of S'Pore. I only went to the Track Events since it was close to where I was staying. Didn't get to see fencing
WAS IT FUCKING AWESOME? Okay, for ANY of you Epee fencers, heck any fencers should understand this. Germany vs Italy in the Men's Epee indiv finals, the German is this 2 metres tall dude who posts with a french grip, the Italian is this guy with incredible blade work, but very weird foot work. Anyway, it was like what 1 minute 30 seconds left or something, and then it was fucking 14-9, in favor of the German. The Italian caught up to 14-13. 2 Seconds left. Did a running attack and took it to priority. And won. Needless to say that was fucking Kickass, but I don't understand why I can't find any VODS of this...
If I'm not mistaken USA didn't really give it's full support to the YOG, they didn't send all of their top athletes to represent them at the events, maybe not for Fencing, though Lee Kiefer didn't come. This is pure speculation on my part, but I think this is caused in part by the fact that USA always had their own Junior Olympics.Last edit: 2012-07-21 12:30:05 |
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| Sanctimonius United Kingdom. July 21 2012 12:41. Posts 846 | Profile # |
Fencing is awesome, did it in Uni and it was a lot of fun.
Fun fact no.1: Fencers have the highest muscle density in the Olympics, in their thighs.
Fun fact no.2: Behind a bullet, the fastest moving thing in the Olympics is the tip of a foil.
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| Dfgj Singapore. July 21 2012 12:53. Posts 5562 | Profile # |
On July 21 2012 04:20 Probe1 wrote:
So fencing has to kick ass by my logic.
That it does. |
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| ZaplinG United States. July 21 2012 15:37. Posts 3804 | Profile Blog # |
| anyone have any good videos of the upcoming athletes? I'd search myself but I know next to nothing and have no idea where to even start. |
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| lisward Singapore. July 21 2012 15:50. Posts 838 | Profile Blog # |
On July 21 2012 15:37 ZaplinG wrote:
anyone have any good videos of the upcoming athletes? I'd search myself but I know next to nothing and have no idea where to even start.
will upload them in sec. |
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