Tag: fencing
Marie-Florence Candassamy: who is the new queen of French fencing?
New fencing star in France, Marie-Florence Candassamy dreams of the gold medal in épée this summer at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Biography, achievements, Laura Flessel, find out who the…
Olympic deserters: Daniel Magay, the former child prodigy of Hungarian fencing
Third episode today in our series dedicated to the incredible stories of all those athletes who, throughout history, took advantage of the Olympic Games to escape their home countries. The…
Fencing: Lawyer on Konstantin Lokhanov’s case – needs Joe Biden’s signature
The interview has been done in collaboration with the Nordic public service companies EPN and NRK. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, fencer Konstantin Lokhanov, aged 25, chose to emigrate to…
fencing, hope of salvation for teenagers in a Nairobi slum
“On guard, ready, go”: on a muddy road in a slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Mburu Wanyoike issues his commands to a troop of teenagers in white outfits and…
99 sheep killed since wolf returned to Utrecht, fencing below standard
Across the Netherlands, 4,701 farm animals have been killed in attacks. Not only sheep, but also ponies, horses, foals, cows, calves, goats, wallabies and alpacas have been attacked. The wolf…
SM in Luleå will get fencing to take hold in Norrbotten
Norrbotten has no participants in the Fencing Championship, which takes place during the Fencing week in Luleå and Boden. But the hope from Stil Luleå is that within a few…
Sarah Daninthe: “Paris 2024 will be equal Games, but I’m a little afraid of what’s next”
On March 8, 2024, International Women’s Day, sportswoman Sarah Daninthe is our great international guest. Great fencing champion, bronze medalist at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, world champion in…
Sarah Daninthe, former fencer on duty for women’s rights
Editor-in-chief of the RFI morning show on the occasion of International Women’s Day this Friday, March 8, Sarah Daninthe flourished in fencing, including an Olympic medal in Athens in 2004.…
French fencing in the middle of a “disaster film scenario”
Paris (AFP) – Between the waltz of the coaches, the positive test of Ysaora Thibus and the questioning of the management of its ex-president, French fencing, expected to be a…
fencing, a family affair for the Ferjani, Tunisian cousins
Having left for the other side of the Atlantic to be able to live their dreams as fencers in the United States, the two Tunisian cousins Farès and Ahmed Ferjani…