7:38 pm

Montano (Ita) vs Yakimento (Rus)

Score:

• 36-34 Montano does a low-line parry
• 36-35
• 37-35 Yakimenko takes the parry, but during the riposte, Montano hits and closes him out
• 38-35 Montano parry riposte
• 39-35 Yakimenko attacks, Montano parries and jumps around the strip!
• 40-35 Same action!!

Tarantino (Italy) vs Pozdniakov (Russia). Can Pozd git er done?

• 40-36 Pozd is a crowd favorite, everbody is cheering him. Parry 5 riposte
• 41-36 Tarantino is too good for that. He attacks
• 42-36 Tarantino fleches, hits, and runs off the strip into the stands! He won't give Pozd a chance.
• 42-37 Pozd gets palpable timing edge and wins the double-touch.
• 43-37 Pozd parries — misses the riposte — Tarantino is there!
• 43-38 Pozd's low-line attack is very useful. Italy is not getting the 2-light actions
• 43-39 Tarantino tries to attack on prep, not given by the ref
• 43-40 Pozd breaks the 40 barrier with a clever point attack. Tarantino is upset
• 43-41 Pozd in an amazing broken-time attack, chases Tarantino down the strip and scores.
• 43-42 Pozd attacks with close-out. Tarantino is looking for guidance from the end of his strip. The crowd loves an underdog… Pozd is being cheered.
• 43-43 Pozd evens it out with a long point attack.
• 27 seconds have passed in the period at this point. Now several simultanae
• 44-43 Both attack, Tarantino takes parry 5, hits
• 44-44 Tarantino finds the attack, begins to chase him down. Pozd sneaks a headcut, amazing hit!! Amazing hit! The crowd won't quiet down.

Russia wins! Russia wins!!

• 44-45 Pozd takes tempo and hits — clearly — ahead of Tarantino

Montano kicks the team box apart, charges behind the stands. He is pacing like an (un)caged lion out of sight of the cameras. The team box is in pieces — staff rush out to take it away. Team Russia rushes out, lifting Pozdniakov up.

Pozd being interviewed — "Yes, it was very close. I think if I lose, I would have my teammates and coach asking me what happened. ... But now I feel good..."

Interviewer: "What will you be eating tonight?"

Pozd: "I will only be drinking tonight. German beer!"

7:30 pm

Missed some points... Tarantino came out of the gate strong, determined to fire Italy up. Yakimenko isn't falling for that, however.

• Score:
• 27-27
• 28-27 Tarantino handle's a strong Yakimenko attack
• 29-27 Tarantino gets the edge in a simultaneous attack.
• 29-28 Yak attack
• 29-29 A long, slow fleche, gets through Tarantino's guard.
• 29-30 Yak attacks, falls short, Tarantino attacks — but Yak has planned this, he pulls distance, and hits Tarantino when his attack is over. Russia leading!

Pastore vs Frossine (Rus) now:

• 30-30 Italy gets a close call from the ref, 1 second has passed in the period
• 31-30 Long attack from Pastore. Sabreurs ahve the nicest lunges.
• 32-30 Frossine lunges — and misses! Pastore is suddenly beside him, head cut
• 33-30 Frossine attacks, Pastore parries and ripostes.
• 33-31 Pastore falls short, and Frossine is there!
• 33-32 Pastore's stop-hit not called in time, touch for Frossine, who did a nice long slow attack
• 33-33 Frossine beat attack, decisive
• 34-33 Pastore gets the call in a double-out action
• 34-34 Pastore attacks, but Frossine successfully pulls distance, then they cross the strip as Frossine delivers the attack and wins the touch
• 35-34 Pastore parries and ripostes

7:18 pm

Aldo Montano takes the strip against Frossine. Montano is 2 up on his opponent.... then more.

Pastore facing the inimitable Pozdniakov, with the score 20-12 in Italy's favor. The Pozd has been known to even scores like this before.

Score:

• 21-14
• 22-14
• 22-15
• 22-16 (12 seconds have passed in the period... in sabre time, Pozd has lots of time to even the score.)
• 22-17 another for Pozd
• 22-18
• 22-19
• 23-19 Pastore makes a quick riposte
• 24-19 Pastore makes another
• 24-20 Pozd fleches into Pastore's preparation
• 24-21 Parry riposte for Pozd
• 24-22 Pozd fleches into Pastore as he pauses... he doesn't move like an old man. Pastore takes this moment to re-tie his shoes.
• 24-23 The shoes don't change a thing!
• 24-24 Pastore is ripping his mask off and rubbing his head. He may be preturbed.
• 25-24 Pastore gets his mojo back.

7:14 pm

France won the France/Hungary Women's Epee Match!!

Italy / Russia Men's Sabre Final:

11/8 right now, Italy leading. Pastore has the strip, while Yakimenko of Russia is trying to recover the score.

13/9 Italy

Yakimenko chased Pastore off the strip, scoring with one light. Pastore acknowledges that touch. Then Yakimenkko goes straight for a surprise — Pastore is too late with his riposte.

Pastore gets the last touch with a calm, reachy lunge.

Italy exits round 3 with the score 15-11.

11:32 pm

• This will be close for the USA.
• 42-40 for Ukraine.
• 43-40 Ukraine.
• 43-41
• 43-42
• 44-42 (Lee's PiL not allowed)
• 44-43 Lee tagged Sturbabin's hand.
• 45-44 Sturbabin attacks, Lee parries and ripostes.

Looks like this one was meant for the Ukrainans.

11:25 pm

As long as Team USA can keep to one-light actions, the calls will go their way.

Crompton just evened the score again. He is fencing brilliantly.

Rogers is up, did a long attack from his end-line, hit Tretiak (Ukr) at his end-line.

38-39 USA

39-40 USA

When you go on strip, you are your biggest opponent.

Especially if you're fencing South Korea.

11:21 am

We're in the L8 for teams.

• Italy is beating China 34/27.
• USA just gave up a big lead against Ukraine. (Lee is getting robbed somewhat.) Score is now Ukraine 27, USA 29.
• Russia is beating Spain 33/25.

7:52 pm

Fabrice Jeannet versus Sven Schmid for the last round. France leading 40-30.
41-30.

Given how France is fencing, it will be very difficult for Germany to make up the score.

44-30 for France.

45-30 France wins!!

7:38 pm

Schmid is trying to capitalize on Jerome Jeannet's week beginning game, before the Frenchman waskes up and finishes his bout. Schmid thus far is one of the highest-scoring Germans; his points include a hand touch and two flying flicks.

28-22 for France. Though Schmid is successful, he's having trouble closing the gap.

7:21 pm

NOTE: this is EPEE. Earlier I mistyped foil, but it ain't that.

M Schmitt of Germany is fencing Jerome Jeannet, and has scored two points to massive German applause. They just clashed belle guards with a horrible grinding noise that made people scream, and Schmitt fell back down the strip, with Jeannet in pursuit.

10-5 France
11-6 double touch

Martin Schmitt is pumping up, and with a series of close touches closed the score to
12-9
13-9 Jerome Jeannet counters as Schmitt rushes in
14-9 Jerome fleches

7:14 pm

Boisse of France is up against Schmid. Twice Schmid has set up a dangerous attack, and twice Boisse has turned it around on him.

7-1 France
8-1 as Schmid attacks, and Boisse parries 3 and then brings it to the German's thigh
8-2 Schmid sneaks a touch in the face of the French onslaught
9-2 Boisse decides he would like another touch.

9-3 As Schmid scores.
1:20 left on the clock... but we're probably going to finish based on score.

7:09 pm

Men's EPEE Team: France vs Germany.

Jeannet takes the strip against Fielder of Germany. In the first 15 seconds — Jeannet fleches and scores! At 2:30 into the period, Jeannet hits again! At 2:00, again!

France 3-0!

For those of you who are writing, saying you'd like to hear Linda Strachan's commentary with Alex Ripa — the whole World Championship DVD set will be available a month from now. (Not available in the United Kingdom.)

Just kidding. It's not available in portions of the European Union that include Gav's town, but aside from that, the DVDs will be global.

And GERMANY lights the board for the first time — the German crowd goes crazy. Drums, horns, whistles, cheers, and good ole-fashioned clapping.

Jeannet quickly comes back with an attack / remise.

5-1 for France. (Epee, outscoring foil tonight.)

6:55:01 pm

Yess! Yes!! She's done it! Keep an eye on Hyun Hee Nam, simply an amazing fencer.

She attacked into Scarlat, and took the point.

South Korea —
World Champion women's foil!

6:55 pm

Hyun Hee Nam — Dynamo! — is up as the last bout. She's moving fast, but Scarlat of Romania is too experienced to be hit easily. 18-19 for Romania.

Hello to all our UK readers! Tonight we have Linda Strachan co-announcing — and she is doing a marvelous job. Too bad you can't hear! It is wonderful.

19-19, as Dynamo brings them even.

Overtime! Korea has priority!

The score is so close, tonight we might use the Referee's strip-side slow-motion, which was created and installed for the FIE by Fencing Pictures.

6:51 pm

Seo of Korea is fencing a defensive game, as she's uninspired on the attack. A lot of pressure from Romania's Stahl, as they try to make up the 18-17 deficit in the penultimate bout.

It works, as Stahl scores another point, bringing it to 18-18.

18-19 Romania!

6:39 pm

14-15 for Romania presently. Romania is strong enough on defense that Korea can't deliver any dominating attacks... except for that last one:

15-15.
16-15.
17-15. Now it's time to see how Romania thrives under pressure.
17-16.
18-16 going into round 8. Korea leads.

6:35 pm

Women's Foil Team Final is up first. After trailing the first 5 rounds, Korean dynamo Hyun Hee Nam tore Romania a new one, making the score even. She's under 5 feet tall, and very light. However she has the fastest footwork, perhaps, in the tournament, and is very good at three things in alternation: long preparation attacks, running away, and stepping in with parry. She is like a hummingbird.

The other South Korean fencers can't keep the same level of excellence, and steadily increase their lead with every round.

13-14 Romania. In this round thus far, 30-yr-old workhorse Scarlat has scored 2, Seo has scored 1.

All the women's team matches today have been low-scoring. 23-22. 30-20.

4:19 pm

The Third Place Women's Foil Team is.... France! 45-33.

2:48 pm

Women's Foil: Korea eliminates France! By over 10 points. It was a route.
Romania eliminates Hungary; in the final bout, Aida Mohammed was able to bring the score within one point, but was running out of time, had to hurry, and got clocked for 5-6 touches in the last 20 seconds.

Men's Epee: France / Germany final!
Germany is ON FIRE. France is ON FIRE. This will be a killer team match.

1:42 pm

Men's epee is taking the strips for its semi-finals.

• Hungary / Germany
• France / Ukraine

The last time France / Ukraine fenced, in the last round, the Ukraine had a massive lead. The last relay is on the Monal DVD from Fencing Pictures as a special feature— Fabrice Jeanne took the strip, and scored 10+ points.

Commentary tonight: Linda Strachan, FIE UK director, will be co-announcing with Alex Ripa.

1:31 pm

US Women's foil — Beat 19th-rank Kazhakistan 45/23 for placement. They're going up against 10th seed Canada, winner will finish 11th.

Men's Epee — Lost to Spain 38/35. Then lost to 15th-rank Korea 45 / 42.

Presently the women's semi-final teams are fencing.

1:11 pm

Okay — big news from Women's Team Foil

No words can express the tension in the France/Poland bout. After trailing the prior rounds, Gruchala came in with a deficit of 18-24. She worked it up to 23-24 before her opponent, Wuilleme, ran a series of touches to 24-27. It looked bad, but in a trice Gruchala had brought it close again -- 27/28. Time ran out, giving France the match at 29/27.

Meanwhile — Romania somehow came up on Italy. We weren't watching closely, because the score was some 24/20 nonsense... Vezzali was working her tail off for some reason, the Italians were screaming and groaning for some reason. It turned out to be the 9th round. Gruchala squeaked the score up, 24/21, 24/22, 24/23. Time was running out. Vezzali fought like a lion. But then Romania scored again... and time ran out. Italy eliminated.

When this happened, Hungary went crazy, hugging and kissing. They face Romania in the semi-final, and they appear to be very confident in the outcome. They quickly finished spanking China (20 points ahead), and went to rest.

Meanwhile, Korea #7 eliminated #2 Russia. (!!)

So France facing Korea, and Romania facing Hungary, in the semi-final. We will product a France / Hungary final match.

12:40 pm

More Women's Foil Team...

• Presently, Gruchala (Poland) isfencing Wuilleme (France). France leads 15-13.
• Hungary 21, China 6
• Romania 14, Italy 11
• Korea 14, Russia 14

Meanwhile, we also met with the very friendly Bill & Beth Ward. They are working on a documentary about the race for the Women's Sabre Junior World Championships. Any good ideas for a title? Right now it's called "Untitled."

12:37 pm

• Men's Epee
• France / Poland
• Italy / Ukraine
• Hungary / Russia
• Spain / Germany

US was eliminated by Spain, but is fencing Korea for placement.

12:10 pm

Women's Foil Team Match-ups:

• Italy / Romania
• China / Hungary
• Poland / France (score 2/2)
• Korea / Russia

11:28 am

Women's Team Foil: USA's Hanna Thompson must make 26 points before France earns 2. Make that 25.

• 44-20
• 44-21
• 44-22
• 44-23 — Hanna is on fire. Pressing France to the end of the strip, finding ripostes to the French attacks.
• 45-23 — A nice rally from the USA.

Germany and China are 23/23!! Germany #5, China #12.

• Ger 23: China 24!
• 24 / 24
• 24 / 25 China is going nuts.
• China eliminated Germany

Korea, killing Canada 41/28. Now 44/29.

11:23 am

Team USA: Women's Foil on the ropes. Hanna Thompson takes the strip to try and even a score of 39-18 France. France is working its in-tempo lunges, and the remise/counter-attacks against the shorter US Fencers.

Other women's team scores as they stand:

• Germany 22 / China 18
• Canada 23 / Korean 35
• Hungary 28 / Ukr 28

Epee

• US 25 / Spain 20 (rnd 8)
• Russia 25 / Sweden 22 (rnd 7)
• Italy 35 / Austria 33 (rnd 9)
• Ukraine 40 / Venezuela 27 (rnd 9)

10:42 am

While Men's Epee Team fences on the subsidiary strips, in the "main ring" Women's foil team is working through the round of 16.

Canada #10 versus Korea #7 -- the Canadian fencer has a severe ankle twist, stopping the bout. She had her ankle wrapped and is hobbling off the strip — it looks like Bouchard. Canada's team: Bouchard, Daoust, Kwan, Therrien. Korea: Jung, Lee, Nam, Seo.

USA #11 vs France #6. Presently USA trails 11-6 in the third bout.

We're going to go down and see what's happening. Based on the screams from the audience, the German team is fencing on blue strip.

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