Sporting a beekeeper-style mask, a Kevlar vest and a saber, Tatiana Nazlymov takes to the strip at her family’s fencing club in Bethesda, Maryland. She’ll be one of three fencers from the D.C. area to ...

A conversation on martial arts usually doesn’t invoke thoughts of Scotland, Germany and Italy, but a club in New Orleans with a focus on martial arts originating in Europe is changing that notion. The ...

This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. Read more here. On Sunday in Paris, with a flick of the wrist and an exultant scream, a 30-year-old medical student named Lee Kiefer made history when ...

Fencing, the sport of sword fighting, is played on a 14-meter-long metal strip known as a piste. A competition between two fencers is called a bout. Fencers earn points in a bout by scoring touches on ...

MIDLAND, Texas — The clanging of swords is what most people hear when they enter the basement of the Momentum Bank Tower in Downtown Midland. That's because a fencing school is in session. "The Sword ...

PARIS, France — Fencing is one of just a handful of sports that has been at every iteration of the modern Olympics, but despite its Olympic longevity, fans might need a refresher on the rules. There ...

A sword is the draw. Each participant carries a 48- to 52-inch saber into the former Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in East Deer for Friday Night Fights where, two by two, they enter a ring wearing ...