it seems like foil will use transparent mask @ beijing

[AllstarUhlmann]

It seems like foil will use transparent masks for the olympics at beijing. Please read the last paragraph of this link:

http://www.reuters.com/article/spher...ue&view=sphere

You guys know otherwise?

[Phrogger]

Great. I just started my comic's Beijing story arc and now I have to redo it. Oh well. That's the beauty of webcomics...always editable!

[epeemike81]

Great. I just started my comic's Beijing story arc and now I have to redo it. Oh well. That's the beauty of webcomics...always editable!

I'd say the athletes who don't have visor masks and are 2 weeks from the games have more to complain about...

-m

[Wingz240]

Baldini has been number one for two years but lost to Joppich in the last two world finals. "Yes, he's starting to be a problem," Baldini joked in an interview with Reuters. "Peter is ... and always ready for the big match, but also a good man outside the piste."


Really made me laugh, can't wait to see that big match.

[downunder]

http://www.fie.ch/download/letters/2...4-08%20ANG.pdf

Following these investigations, the FIE Executive Committee was
consulted and it decided to apply the decision taken during the 2007
Congress in Madrid (ESP) , starting from March 15, 2008 :

The use of wireless apparatus and masks with transparent visors are
compulsory in the following women’s and men’s foil competitions:
- Individual events of the Grand Prix competitions, World
Championships and Olympic Games, from the table of 32
onwards;
- Team events of the team World Cup and of the World
Championships, from the top 8 teams;
- Team events of the Olympic Games, from the beginning of the
competition.

[Timberwolf_CY]

I was gonna say, this came up a while ago in that thread where the South American (I believe) got hit through a lexan visor in epee, and then they made the ruling for foil, but it was the sabreurs who were left screaming...

[DJ Apostrophe]

http://www.fie.ch/download/letters/2...4-08%20ANG.pdf

Following these investigations, the FIE Executive Committee was
consulted and it decided to apply the decision taken during the 2007
Congress in Madrid (ESP) , starting from March 15, 2008 :

The use of wireless apparatus and masks with transparent visors are
compulsory in the following women’s and men’s foil competitions:
- Individual events of the Grand Prix competitions, World
Championships and Olympic Games, from the table of 32
onwards;
- Team events of the team World Cup and of the World
Championships, from the top 8 teams;
- Team events of the Olympic Games, from the beginning of the
competition.

All well and good that they decided that in 07, but then in January 08, this urgent letter came down: http://www.fie.ch/download/letters/2...%20%202-08.pdf

"As the exact circumstances of the accident mentioned above need to
be investigated, it has been decided that the obligatory use of the
mask with a transparent visor in foil is temporarily suspended."

I don't recall anything else ever mentioning it was being reinstated.

-w

[Phrogger]

I was going to say...I thought I saw photos from the World Championships and there were no visors in sight.

[oiuyt]

All well and good that they decided that in 07, but then in January 08, this urgent letter came down: http://www.fie.ch/download/letters/2...%20%202-08.pdf

"As the exact circumstances of the accident mentioned above need to
be investigated, it has been decided that the obligatory use of the
mask with a transparent visor in foil is temporarily suspended."

I don't recall anything else ever mentioning it was being reinstated.

-w

Information Letter from March 6th, 2008. (edit: which is what Downunder linked/quoted)

-B

[downunder]

All well and good that they decided that in 07, but then in January 08, this urgent letter came down: http://www.fie.ch/download/letters/2...%20%202-08.pdf

"As the exact circumstances of the accident mentioned above need to
be investigated, it has been decided that the obligatory use of the
mask with a transparent visor in foil is temporarily suspended."

I don't recall anything else ever mentioning it was being reinstated.

-w

http://www.fie.ch/download/letters/2...4-08%20ANG.pdf

Following these investigations, the FIE Executive Committee was
consulted and it decided to apply the decision taken during the 2007
Congress in Madrid (ESP) , starting from March 15, 2008 :

The use of wireless apparatus and masks with transparent visors are
compulsory in the following women’s and men’s foil competitions:
- Individual events of the Grand Prix competitions, World
Championships and Olympic Games, from the table of 32
onwards;
- Team events of the team World Cup and of the World
Championships, from the top 8 teams;
- Team events of the Olympic Games, from the beginning of the
competition.

....

[piste off]

... but it was the sabreurs who were left screaming...

Some things never change.

R-

[KD5MDK]

Will there be a table of 64 in MF at the Olympics? Will anyone fence with a traditional mask in them?

[downunder]

Will there be a table of 64 in MF at the Olympics? Will anyone fence with a traditional mask in them?

There are 26 fencers in Men's Foil.

There are 41 fencers in Women's Foil however...

[KD5MDK]

Doh. Forgot about teams and the difference that makes.