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Fencing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. There are three forms of Olympic fencing: Foil — a light thrusting weapon; the valid target is restricted to the torso; double touches are not allowed.
Only Foil and Sabre events were part of the first Olympic Games in the summer of 1896. [ 33 ] Épée was introduced in 1900 (Paris). Foil was omitted from the 1908 (London) Olympics, but since 1912, fencing events for every weapon—Foil, Épée and Sabre—have been held at every Summer Olympics .
Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. [1] The three disciplines of modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also saber); each discipline uses a different kind of blade, which shares the same name, and employs its own rules.
PARIS — It’s somehow perfectly on-brand for France that some of the Olympics’ most raucous partying and most combative swordplay are taking place in one of the nation’s most elegant palaces.
Team USA's Lee Kiefer reacts as she competes in the women's foil team gold medal bout between Italy and USA during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Grand Palais in Paris on Aug. 1, 2024.
The Italian grip provides more 'grip' than the French grip, but less than a 'pistol-grip'. The finger rings and crossbar are descendants of the swords that used quillions. This type of grip is rarely, if ever, used in Olympic-style fencing. Quillion – also Quillon, Cross-guard. A bar that composes all or part of the guard of a sword.
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It was a male-only event until the 2000 Games, when an event for women was added. [8] This enabled the sport to achieve gender parity 24 years before the Olympic Games managed this as a whole. [15] A men's team event was added to the Olympic Games in 1952, and was included in all Summer Olympics until its last appearance in 1992.