4:36 am

Foil Experiment Footage

Wednesday, October 12th was a "free day" at the World Championships. Apart from some team preliminaries, there was no competition going on. So the FIE referee commission brought out all its gadgets and did a series of foil experiments.

Experiments included: Wireless foil, foil without off-target lights, and foil with the arm-as-target (the arm lamés would only become "hot" if the fencer had his arm against his body, e.g., he was covering target). What wasn't tested: relaxed depression timings, the bib-target.

The fencers in the experiment were the highest ranking fencers from each continent. European fencers weren't involved (though some, like Sanzo, showed up to watch), and neither were women fencers. Golubitsky directed.

The experiment is now available on video. Foil Experiment Video.

7:43 pm

Women's Sabre: Team USA wins the gold!

We will be having an interview with the US Women's Sabre Team. If you have questions, email them to webmaster@fencingchannel.tv, with the Subject: Sabre question

Men's Foil: France dominates Italy!

2:39 pm

• Poland victorious over USA
• Italy victorious over Germany. FP staff quote: "Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous — I'll say it once more — gorgeous fencing." In one action, Vanni did a parry, with riposte behind the back, and nailed it.
• France victorious over China.

2:13 pm

USA still trailing Poland, but by 33 / 26 now.

Germany has fallen behind Italy, after leading for the early rounds. Italy 29 / 23.

France leading China comfortably, 29 / 19.

Spain still dominating in round 8 against Austria, 37 / 18.

2:01 pm

Looks like Tiompkin just brough the score to within 2 points against Poland -- 19 / 21 Poland.

1:52 pm

The matches are still being fenced.

• USA / Poland score: 19/12
• Austria / Spain score: 6 / 20
• Italy / Germany score: 11 / 14...
  Joppich / Vanni have the attention of the main German audience.
• China / France score: 12 /16

1:33 pm

Poland and the USA are fencing for position, 5-8th place. Suznicki of Poland, a FencingChannel co-announcer for men's foil, just dominated Dupree 5-0 in the first round. Kellner has a fight on his hands with Poland's strong foil fencer, Mocek. Presently, the score is 9-2 for Poland.

Austria is fencing Spain, also for position. The winning teams of Poland/USA and Austria/Spain, will fence for 5th place, the losers will fence for 7th place.

On the other strips, Italy and Germany are fencing to get into the final bout — Joppich had a good (and rare) performance against Sanzo, finishing 5-1.

France is fencing China, also to get into the final bout — the first round featured Le Pechoux versus Zhang, a reprise of their bout in individuals where Zhang eliminated Le Pechoux with much drama. This time, Le Pechoux won the bout 5-3.

1:04 pm

Men's Foil Team — USA eliminated by a very strong Chinese team. They will be fencing placement from now on, for 5-8th place.

China will now go up against France, to see which nation gets into the gold-medal match. On Tuesday, French fencer Le Pechoux was disappointed in his dreams for World Champion by Chinese fencer Zhang. They will meet again in the team match.

12:40 pm

Men's Foil Team — USA still laboring under a 10-point deficit against China.

Women's Sabre team — has taken ownership of Hungary, 45-27.

USA Women's Sabre will be fencing for first place today!!

12:11 pm

Men's Foil — USA is presently fencing #3 China, and is down by 7 points in the early rounds. Dupree is fighting hard to even the score, but his opponent is Zhu.

Round 4 — USA is down 10 points to China, and Tiompkin is working very hard against China's Liu.

Women's Sabre: Zagunis just brought the USA ahead against Hungary in the 2nd round. Jacobson takes the strip against Csaba (?).

• 12-9
• 13-9
• 14-9
• 15-9

If the USA wins this match, they will fence for the gold against either Russia or Poland.

11:34 am

Men's Foil:
USA defeats India!! USA defeats India!!

Men's Foil Team, USA #6 defeats India with a score 45-12.

The next match, tougher, Canada #11, is presently being fenced. A 9-touch rally by Dan Kellner in the 6th round, and a 7 touch rally from Tiomkin brought the USA ahead. USA leads 35-23.

Women's Sabre:
USA defeats 2nd-rank France!

A weak start by Team USA had France in the lead for the first several rounds. MVP-candidate Rebecca Ward brought the score even, and Zagunis then stepped in and brought the USA ahead. With a dominating score — 45-32 — the USA advances to fence Hungary in the semi-final.

11:04 am

Women's Sabre Team: USA vs France

Having two of the strongest fencers in the world on your team doesn't count for much if you can't get it together. Sada Jacobson just went down 5-1 against France; Rebecca Ward has been doing heroic work so far (based on indicators), and has brought the score to 6-10 against the World Champion. Zagunis came in, and with great effort brought the score 15/14.

Earlier, Ward averted a crisis when Great Britain #10 drew ahead. Ward balanced the score at 38/38, and finished the bout 40-38, and then USA was able to win the final round.

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