2004 and 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist Mariel Zagunis was awarded the prestigious “Challenge Chevalier Feyerick” at the FIE Congress held November 21st and 22nd 2009. Zagunis had most recently won the 2009 World Championship in Women's Sabre.
At the recent FIE Congress meeting, the FIE executive committee announced that the Men's Team Epee and Women's Team Sabre events will be excluded from the 2012 Olympic Games.
In other votes, the city of Catania, Italy won the bid to host the 2011 senior world championships over Tianjin, China, and Budapest, Hungary. Various proposals that seemed design to add weight to European results were defeated.
We've pulled together a bunch of gift ready items that delight the fencer and are the things that fencers don't often buy for themselves (since they are busy buying new blades or grips.)
I often find myself looking at the gift ideas and thinking - "Well, after I rewire that blade and switch out my bells, I'll see about getting that calendar." That's why my wife buys the gifts for me - I'll be much too practical about it!
The new book Image of Fencing features great photos and is the first fencing coffee table book. Keep track of the tournament schedule with the 2010 Fencing Calendar. We also have the Fencing T Shirt for the fencer that needs to express their individuality outside of the salle.
The black t-shirt uses a metallic silver ink for the logo instead of our standard white printing. The effect is pretty nice. We have referred to this as our 'coaching' shirt since black is traditionally the color for use by fencing coaches, but anyone can wear this.
Read on after the jump to see the new hoodie and some other gift ideas.
Michael takes a look at FencingRef, an iPhone / iTouch application in use at many local fencing tournaments.
Fencing Ref is the premier mobile tool for the fencing referee. Version 1.1 is the latest update to the application for your iPhone or iTouch. It addresses the criticisms and advice from the fencing community towards earlier versions of the app as well as towards the free version, ScoreCounter (review here).
The US Fencing Association reported today that Michael Pederson will be returning to the post of national coach for the women's foil program for the remainder of the 2012 Olympic quadrennial.
Pederson recently resigned as US Fencing's High Performance Director following the 2009 World Championships.
2004 and 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist Mariel Zagunis was awarded the prestigious “Challenge Chevalier Feyerick” at the FIE Congress held November 21st and 22nd 2009. Zagunis had most recently won the 2009 World Championship in Women's Sabre. 
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Michael takes a look at FencingRef, an iPhone / iTouch application in use at many local fencing tournaments.
