08-11-2008, 02:25 AM
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#61 | | Just Joined
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| maitrejean wins. damnit | 
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08-11-2008, 02:26 AM
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#62 | | gother than thou
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| Erinn looked really tired at the end of the bout. Caught w/ counters after some prettie huge preperations and caught sleeping on some really nice attacks by the french girl. A good showing for the US though. It certainly wasn't a bad bout. | |
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08-11-2008, 02:29 AM
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#63 | | Senior Member
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| Man, that bout turned quickly. How many times did Erin get hit standing still once the score hit double digits?
Good show by Jujie Luan, to come to Beijing at age 50 and make it out of the first round! | |
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08-11-2008, 02:30 AM
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#64 | | Member
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| Maitrejean completely takes over in the third period and wins 15-9.
Smart had eked out a 7-5 lead, but her opponent seemed to suddenly raise her intensity level at the same time that Erinn became sluggish and started making distance errors. | |
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08-11-2008, 02:33 AM
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| Meanwhile, according to the NBC Play by Play, Vezzali wins her bout 28-5. | |
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08-11-2008, 02:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Catseye  Meanwhile, according to the NBC Play by Play, Vezzali wins her bout 28-5. | Well, it is Vezzali. | |
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08-11-2008, 02:41 AM
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#67 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Catseye Meanwhile, according to the NBC Play by Play, Vezzali wins her bout 28-5. | Pfft! Vezzali doesn't confirm to your "simple" 15 hit only bout conventions!
Edit: Clearly this is the new direction of foil, the loser still fences until 5 points. She must be in cahoots with Roach.
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08-11-2008, 03:03 AM
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#68 | | Senior Member
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| After each hit, Vezzali is allowed to "Go for the conversion" and score more points.
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08-11-2008, 03:03 AM
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| Knapek was much more subdued after her Round of 16 defeat of Su, 15-10. She quieted the crowd with a torso-skewering 6-2 run from 8-7 to 14-9. Su got the next point, arousing the crowd's memories of Knapek's last-round near-collapse. But she did not repeat that drama, nailing the match on the next touch. Knapek also did not repeat her vocal post-match outburst of the last round. | |
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08-11-2008, 03:14 AM
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#70 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Grasshopper After each hit, Vezzali is allowed to "Go for the conversion" and score more points. | Conversion? Conversion to what? Roachs newest heresy? I see dark times ahead for all those whom are unbeleivers of these new ways. I suspect they will be dragged away to the east-european "Foil Camps" for re-education. | |
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08-11-2008, 03:54 AM
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#71 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Monash_Armourer Conversion? Conversion to what? Roachs newest heresy? I see dark times ahead for all those whom are unbeleivers of these new ways. I suspect they will be dragged away to the east-european "Foil Camps" for re-education. | It was a football joke, but I think I like your way better  | |
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08-11-2008, 04:21 AM
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#72 | | Senior Member
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| Looks like the top four seeds got to the finals,
the Italians can sweep WF just like the Americans.
top four are:
TRILLINI, HYUNHEE, GRANBASSI, VEZZALI | 
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08-11-2008, 04:23 AM
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#73 | | Senior Member
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| An italian sweep on the cards and looking very likely. Vezzali's won two of her three matches 15-3 | |
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08-11-2008, 05:02 AM
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#74 | | Senior Member
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| Granbassi falls 3 times with her toe on the end line in quarters, and all 3 times somehow gains ground - beyond a joke.
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08-11-2008, 05:46 AM
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#75 | | Senior Member
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| Hm? I've always been instructed that as long as the halt isn't something that will cost the fencer distance, you can't reset the fencer with his or her rear foot behind the endline. | |
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08-11-2008, 08:05 AM
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#76 | | Fencing Expert
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| Well, since there is no halt that can "cost the fencer distance", then you can't reset the fencer ever with his rear foot behind the endline, can you?
Theoretically, you don't lose distance, your opponent gains some, and you must adjust.
But I don't know what I am talking about, I didn't see the bout.
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08-11-2008, 08:17 AM
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#77 | | Moderator
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| If their rear foot was already beyond the endline, you put them back on guard with their feet exactly where they had been. | |
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08-11-2008, 08:34 AM
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#78 | | Admin
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| Trillini loses to Hyunhee. The Italian broadcasters two rows down are going nuts and the crowd sounds ready to take the referee out for a beating.
The referee was often acting unsure of his calls and there was a lot of whistling every time he went for the video replay terminal.
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08-11-2008, 08:38 AM
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#79 | | Senior Member
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| so i think nbc broke on me for the second half of the nam-trillini bout =[
can't believe i missed that one, it cut off on my just when trillini looked like she might start catching up.
nam for the gold anyone??? (10% chance maybe?) | |
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08-11-2008, 08:47 AM
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#80 | | Senior Member
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| GAH! Why aren't they televising this over here? I've had to follow everything through the Beijing feed all day. This is exactly the kind of upset that makes for good viewing. I'd loved to have been able to watch it live and watch the supposed floundering of the ref.
Honestly I think Vezzali now has it. I thought the only person standing in her way might have been Trillini. I did tip Golubutsky to be where Hyunhee is now, who I thought also might have produced an interesting bout with Vezzali that could have been close as well.
Maybe I'm speaking too soon. Granbassi could further upset expectations BUT I CAN'T FOLLOW THE FEED SO I'D NOT KNOW UNTIL IT'S ALREADY OVER! ARGH!
EDIT: HOW IN HELL DID TRILLINI GET TWO RED CARDS? wHAT WENT WRONG? WERE THEY DESERVED?
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