Fencing Tickets

Sydney, 21 September 2000. Fencing. Sabre. Mihail Claudiu Covaliu (ROM), 1st, Wiradech Kothny (GER), 3rd. Credit: Getty Images/Doug Pensinger

 

Take the romantic, swashbuckling epics of Errol Flynn, add some rules, protective clothing and an electronic scoring system, and you have fencing at the Olympic Games. Two rivals stand opposite each other and feint, lunge, parry and riposte until one scores the required number of hits to win.