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 ...

The Olympic fencing competitions continue on Sunday, July 28 with the women’s individual foil and men’s individual epee events. American Lee Kiefer, the defending gold medalist from Tokyo, is the ...

PARIS--Years of efforts by the Japanese Fencing Federation to groom top-flight competitors, including enlisting coaches from France and Ukraine, paid off big at the Paris Olympics. Japanese ...

(KTAL/KMSS) — It’s Day 10 of the Olympics. Last week, 30-year-old American fencer and medical student Lee Kiefer made history as the first American to win gold medals in foil fencing at two ...

(Clarissa Sosin / New York Daily News via Getty Images) Clarissa Sosin Peter Westbrook, who became the first Black fencer to win an Olympic medal for the U.S., then started a New York City fencing ...

TAKASAKI, Gunma Prefecture--Kazuyasu Minobe, who won Japan’s first Olympic gold medal in fencing in the men’s team epee event on July 30, trembled when he received a surprise 100-million-yen ( ...