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Robert James Gilbert Anderson (15 September 1922 – 1 January 2012) was an English Olympic fencer and a renowned film fight choreographer, with a cinema career that spanned more than 50 years and included films such as Star Wars, Highlander, The Three Musketeers, The Princess Bride, The Mask of Zorro, The Lord of the Rings, and Die Another Day.
Animalympics is a 1980 American animated sports comedy television film [1] directed by Steven Lisberger [2] and produced by Lisberger Studios for the NBC network. [3] Originally commissioned as two separate specials, it spoofs the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and features the voices of Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer and Michael Fremer.
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The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar (2018) Four years after Lifetime released their biopic on Gabby Douglas, they celebrated Olympic gymnast Simone Biles' rise to the top at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
On the Edge (Russian: На острие, romanized: Na ostrie) is a 2020 Russian sports drama film directed by Eduard Bordukov. Women's fencing in a confrontation between two swordswomen on sabers, the film stars Svetlana Khodchenkova, Stasya Miloslavskaya, Sergei Puskepalis, and Alexey Barabash.
Correction/clarification: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the number of Olympic athletes coached by Peter Westbrook. He helped develop 16 Olympians.
Richard A Cohen (born 9 May 1947) is a retired British fencer who competed at three Olympic Games [1] and the author of four books, Making History, The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past, Chasing the Sun, the story of man's relationship to that star, How to Write Like Tolstoy, A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers, and By the Sword, a history of sword fighting.
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.