Men's Team Sabre: NYC World Cup

[Craig]

NYTimes Coverage:

Team Finishes Can't Mask the Progress of U.S. Fencing

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/sp...partner=GOOGLE

Summary: US Men's Sabre finishes 6th, doing about as well as expected given the current world team rankings. Because the US is in North America, they should be the team out of this region to go to the Olympics if not automatically qualified by world team rankings.

Cheers,
Craig

[jspierre]

The NY Times awarded Peter Westbrook a bronze medal in epee!

The reporting overall, as you would expect, had a very strong local slant, but did little to teach readers about the sport, or generally give it any kind of sufficient play in terms of position in the paper to bring in non-fencing (mostly 12 million people in NY) readers.

I understand that there was a huge crowd at Grand Central Station outside the gate to see the saber finals... I idea of hosting the final at GCS was a brilliant stroke...

[annacattiva]

I think that it was great to have the finals at Grand Central, but I also think that perhaps it would have been even more brilliant to have them be visible to people walking by. Maybe a large screen on the other side of the hall with a video feed from one of the cameras they had in the stands? I went in to NYC just to watch the event, and while I did get to see fabulous fencing in all the events, I would really have liked to be able to see more of the finals than one fencer's back.