Let me just preface this by saying if you are an Olympic fencer, i respect you a lot, you have worked incredibly hard and i hope this in no way undermines all the prestige associated with being an Olympian
I was just going over some footage and saw some guy named Ali (MAR) get rocked by Guyart (FRA) in foil. It was bad, and by bad I mean slightly amusing. What a descprency. Anybody else see some good shut-outs?
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ahah, thankfully no paper. I'm done with college. I just started to get interested in fencing again, that's all. I needed a break for a little while.
Unfortunately, because of my time off, these 15-3 whoopings are becoming pretty common place for me... Just need a little time to get my legs under me...
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Viaggio (ARG) vs. Zhu (CHN) was also a pretty huge mismatch. Also amusing because the chinese fencer wanted a really ridiculous preparation call at one point, and the (Hungarian) referee, completely deadpan (not very hard, since he's Hungarian), says "Not sabre. En garde".
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Let me just preface this by saying if you are an Olympic fencer, i respect you a lot, you have worked incredibly hard and i hope this in no way undermines all the prestige associated with being an Olympian
It's perfectly fair to discuss fencing bouts in a fencing forum.
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What was tough for me was, i think zhu vs cassara quarter finals. At one point there was such a break down in communication it was unbearable. Zhu kept putting up two fingers, saying "two" "two". Nobody had a friggin clue what he meant. I think what happened was the ref called the touch against China, and then Zhu's intent was to say "okay cassara, now you have two free touches" and be exclusive/cool about, but it ended up being very awkward.
As for people worry about the merit of this thread, that's silly.
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What was tough for me was, i think zhu vs cassara quarter finals. At one point there was such a break down in communication it was unbearable. Zhu kept putting up two fingers, saying "two" "two". Nobody had a friggin clue what he meant. I think what happened was the ref called the touch against China, and then Zhu's intent was to say "okay cassara, now you have two free touches" and be exclusive/cool about, but it ended up being very awkward.
Nope, it was a scoreboard error. As I recall, it displayed 12-11 Cassara when it should have said 13-12 Cassara, and Zhu was trying (unsuccessfully) to keep the incorrect score.
The most lopsided fencing I saw was probably in US women's sabre vs. South Africa.
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