Category: Olympic Games

Even for the most seasoned of fencers, learning all about the players in the Olympics from the world of fencing can be a bit daunting. 

We’ve put together some resources to help you both watch fencing at the Olympics and also to help you learn more about the fencers who are competing. Maybe you’re familiar with the American players in the Games, or maybe you know all of the international names. Maybe you’re really new to fencing and have never heard of any of these people! No matter what your level, the following information will be a great help for you to figure out what’s going on this year and to deepen your understanding of what international fencing is all about. 

Tokyo 2020 in 2021, here we come!

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The Tokyo Olympics are just under a week away, and that means it’s time for some serious analysis and predictions to ramp up before the Games begin!

This year is of course different from any other year in the history of the Olympics, both because of the yearlong delay and because of the extraordinary safety measures that will be taken to keep the athletes safe. No live audiences will be sitting in the stands, so everyone gets the same view from home that each of us does! This year’s Olympics are called Tokyo 2020, even though they take place in 2021. You’ll see both years talked about interchangeably, but know that they’re the same Games. 

Another new piece this year is that all sections will be included in the Olympics for fencing for the first time – team and individual for both genders and all sports. That means more fencing!

The qualification for the Olympics this year has been unique, with countries all over the world modifying their paths thanks to the cancellation of so many tournaments over the last year and a half. None of that matters anymore, because now we know who’s qualified and who isn’t. It all comes down to the big competition now. But how will it all play out? That’s the big question we all want to know. Let’s get started.

Note: The insight you read below is based on the final qualification for the Olympics in fencing, which you can find here. 

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Olympic fencing has moved and evolved considerably over the last one hundred and twenty seven years, and it’s been quite the journey. Understanding how fencing has changed as part of the Olympics can give us insight into what fencing is today and where it will take us tomorrow. 

This is the second of three posts in which we delve into what Olympic fencing is all about. In Part 1, we talked about how the Olympics came about and how fencing fit into them from the beginning of the Modern Olympiad. Here in Part 2, we’ll look at the structure of our sport within the Olympics and how it’s changed over time. Read Part 3 to learn how Olympic fencers get to that level, including the path to qualification and the individual attributes that get fencers to the Olympics. 

First off, let’s go into how fencing got started in the Olympics and what the road has been like to get here. 

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There is no event in the world of sports that holds so high a place as the Olympics. It is held up as the pinnacle of not only sport, but part of what society is striving for in general. This is true of fencing as well as many other sports. The Olympics are complex and simple all at once, and they have a history that reaches back thousands of years, long before the world and realities that we live in today. 

In order to understand how fencing is seated within the Olympics, we have to first understand what the Olympics are. 

This is the first of three posts that will explore what Olympic fencing is all about. We’ll start by exploring the Games as a whole, how they fit into the world and we as the sport of fencing fits into them. In Part 2, we’ll dive deep into the structure of Olympic fencing and how it has evolved. Finally, in Part 3 we’ll go through how Olympic fencers get to that level, including the qualification paths and the personal traits that make Olympic fencers rise to the top of the podium.

Let’s start with a foundation in what the Games are and how they came about, including how fencing became part of this internationally renowned sport competition. 

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