Stockholm, Sweden: Men's Epee Grand Prix, the Challenge Bernadotte.
It's running today and tomorrow. It's a strong tournament, the world top 32 (except #16 and #31) are here. All the main teams are here, sum of 186 fencers from 36 countries. http://www.challengebernadotte.org -- not much info yet.
Day 1,
- Soren eliminated by Milanoli.
- Erbele, Viviani are both out.
Tomorrow the table of 64:
- Fabrice Jeannet vs Eric Hansen
- Kelsey vs. Bas Verwijlen
Rumor: D Strigel (DE) may announce retirement.
Fencing Channel is here covering the action and taking athlete interviews (20 so far!). Any questions we should be asking during these interviews?
Fencing Channel is here covering the action and taking athlete interviews (20 so far!). Any questions we should be asking during these interviews?
Please stop asking things like "What is your favorite food?" (see Kolobkov and Bissdorf interviews)
I think it's great that a system is now in place to make more fencing footage available. And interviews are a great idea--but they need to be significantly more journalistic, more professional.
Stick to the material that's relevant: what's made this a successful/unsuccessful performance? any recent changes in technique/tactics/etc. seem to be prevalent? which opponents/nations are standing out/dropping off?
I think that will significantly boost the quality of the interviews.
Stockholm, Sweden: Men's Epee Grand Prix, the Challenge Bernadotte.
It's running today and tomorrow. It's a strong tournament, the world top 32 (except #16 and #31) are here. All the main teams are here, sum of 186 fencers from 36 countries. http://www.challengebernadotte.org -- not much info yet.
Day 1,
- Soren eliminated by Milanoli.
- Erbele, Viviani are both out.
Tomorrow the table of 64:
- Fabrice Jeannet vs Eric Hansen
- Kelsey vs. Bas Verwijlen
Thanks for posting this. You beat me to the punch.
Eric had really great DEs today.
Don't let 'em drop it. Don'tlet'emdropit. Stop it... bebop it.
Day 2 --
- Grumier out
- Bas Verwijlen out by Kelsey
- Kolobkov out by Tagliariol (ITA)
- Striegel out
- Milanoli out by Fiedler (GER)
- Fischer (SUI) out
Kelsey fencing Castaneda ESP to pass to the 16.
Amazing come-back. He was losing 6-12 and won.
Kelsey lost 15-9 vs France's Fabrice Jeannet, in the r8.
Considering the strength of this tournament (only 2 fencers of the world top 32 missing), his performance puts him in the top 8 of the world. (Ultimate point rankings will end up different, though.)
Very productive tournament! We had dinner with Bas Verwijlen (NED), and we're going to record a commentary track for a DVD with him. We interviewed Jeannet, Fischer. We talked with Milanoli -- about his angry-clown mask, black cards, the best epee fencers of all time (starting with himself). The prizes at the GP included iPods!
Italy/Hungary for the team final, great final, great footage! Hungary took an early lead, but Italy came back (Carrozo, Martinoli, Bossalini, Milanoli as 4th). Italy 45, Hungary 35.
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