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Ukraine wins its first gold medal of the Paris Olympics, in women's team saber fencing
PARIS (AP) — Ukraine won its first gold medal of the Paris Olympics with a victory over South Korea on Saturday in the women’s team saber fencing final. Individual bronze medalist Olga Kharlan scored 22 points and the Ukrainian team recovered from six points down for a 45-42 win....
Hong Kong hits back at Italy's protest against fencer Cheung's win with posts on pineapple pizza
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong fencer Cheung Ka-long’s victory over Italy’s Filippo Macchi at the Paris Olympics has sparked an exchange of insults on social media, with Cheung's supporters celebrating his win with posts about pineapple pizzas—widely considered a culinary blunder in Italian...
One Extraordinary Olympic Photo: Christophe Ena captures the joy of fencing gold at the Paris Games
PARIS (AP) — Christophe Ena takes a closer look at his AP photo of fencing joy at the spectacular Grand Palais. Why this photo? In this photo, France’s Manon Apithy Brunet celebrates after winning the women’s individual Sabre quarterfinal match against Greece’s...
Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan wins her country's first medal of the Paris Olympics
PARIS (AP) — A handshake could have cost Olga Kharlan her place at the Olympics. Instead, she won Ukraine's first medal of the Paris Games to give a country at war something to celebrate. Kharlan overturned a six-point deficit to beat South Korea's Choi Sebin 15-14 for the women's...
US women's saber fencers lose Olympic bouts overshadowed by a match-fixing investigation
PARIS (AP) — All three U.S. women's saber fencers lost their opening bouts at the Paris Olympics on Monday under the cloud of an investigation that examined possible match-fixing in qualifying for the Games. Tatiana Nazlymov was competing a month after she testified in a 13-hour...
Kiefer earns 2nd Olympic gold in women's foil fencing with a victory over American teammate Scruggs
PARIS (AP) — Lee Kiefer won back-to-back gold medals in foil fencing and her teammate Lauren Scruggs took the silver Sunday to make history as the first Black fencer to win an Olympic medal in an individual women's event for the United States. Kiefer won 15-6 in the final against...
Historic Olympic streak ends in a shock upset as Hungarian fencer Aron Szilagyi is finally beaten
PARIS (AP) — An era-defining winning streak in Olympic fencing was snapped in a shock upset Saturday as Hungarian fencer Aron Szilagyi lost his opening bout while chasing a fourth consecutive gold medal. Szilagyi won Olympic gold in men's individual saber in 2012, 2016 and 2021 —...
Cleared of doping charges, French fencer Ysaora Thibus is included in Olympic team
PARIS (AP) — Ysaora Thibus, one of France’s leading fencers, has been selected to compete at the Paris Olympics after escaping a disciplinary sanction from the International Fencing Federation over an abnormal doping test. The French fencing federation said on Saturday that...
