fencing

Hungry’s László Csongrádi awoke to discover his 1988 Olympics gold medal missing and is offering to pass it on to the thief in his will if it is returned.

Fencing at the Olympics is one of the fastest-moving sports in the Games, with lightning-quick reaction times and careful scoring required, but why are the athletes seemingly tethered to the Earth?

Lauren Scruggs already had a silver medal. Now she’s got Paris Olympics gold. It’s the first gold medal for the U.S. in Olympic team fencing events in history. Team USA earned silver once, in 2008. Scruggs, a 21-year-old Harvard student from Queens, and the rest of the U.S. women’s foil fencers (including two-time gold medalist Lee Kiefer), defeated China...

After dropping their first two matchups, Team USA rebounded in the final round of the men’s team sabre fencing tournament, defeating Canada 45-43.

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.

Here are five things to know about Team USA fencer Eli Dershwitz.

“It looks very hoppable,” Kiefer said of a low wooden fence in a picturesque field. “So if you want to break and enter, that’s a perfect fence.”

Fencing has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement. Here is what you need to know about the sport ahead of the 2024 Paris Games.