All good things must come to an end and this is also true of The Fencing Podcast. This is our final episode and, in truth, there is very little chat about actual fencing but we hope you enjoy it anyway.

Special Thanks:

To all of our Patrons and our sponsors Leon Paul. Without your support this podcast would never have been possible.
To Michelle Golding for the logo and support - your help was much appreciated in getting the good ship Fencing Podcast afloat.
To Chris Heaps whose banjo antics you hear in every spisode, many thanks! See you and your daughter on the circuit.
To the French Federation, never fear our twitter desk will still be manned there will be GIFS!


THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS LISTENED OVER ALL THESE YEARS.

WE WILL MISS YOU ALL.

Gav updates us on his travel plans and his vital contribution to the Games. Kate, Gav and Sean put their heads together to make their predictions for the Tokyo Olympics and find that they are, disconcertingly, often in agreement. We also find that the Prediction Game that we’re playing against each other brings out our worst competitive instincts. We’d love to hear your predictions and the thinking behind them (see the description below and email: [email protected]) The team also reveal the other sports that they’re looking forward to watching.

This week Kate, Sean and Gav look back at their highlights of the Cadet & Junior World Championships in Cairo and look forward to the Olympic zonal qualifiers. Kate and Gav invent ASMR fencing commentary and Sean pays tribute to the late President of British Fencing, Keith Smith.

Sean also chats to Johnny Davis, the British team manager, prior to the European zonal qualifiers in Madrid.

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Keith Smith obituary: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website (fie.org)

All the videos on the FIE YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/FIEvideo/videos

All the results https://fie.org/competitions

Sean talks a load of foil (Kate and Gav get to chip in occasionally) as the action heads to Doha for the foil Grand Prix. The return of the game (foil, obviously) and while there were a lot of early departures, there were also a lot of familiar faces at the end of the day. Olympic places were decided, some big names miss out. Gav shares some horrifying mental images early in the episode so make sure you're sitting down. Good times and sad times for British Fencing.

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Doha Foil Grand Prix finals: https://youtu.be/RHETRaerUyA

In this episode the team discuss a week of epee… well almost. It took several days for the final Epee world cup in Kazan to run! And as you’d expect in this era it was carnage. Gav gets very excited about the mens epee team final, quite right too. Kate even admits she watched some of it!

All the videos on the FIE YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/FIEvideo/videos

All the results https://fie.org/competitions

And you should definitely follow Dave Baker's Facebook page all about the qualification process https://www.facebook.com/FencingTokyo.

Episode 61: All The Sabre Dudes

Kate, Gav and Sean actually have some real, live fencing to talk about!! Budapest saw international fencing return with a men's and women's sabre World Cup and it was glorious. Everything you could have asked for including more Olympic qualification, some surprises, a few absentees, additional face masks and potentially some Olympic dress rehearsals.

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Budapest Women’s Sabre individual results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/151?tab=results

Budapest Men’s Sabre Individual results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/160?tab=results

Budapest Women’s Sabre Team results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/756?tab=results

Budapest Men’s Sabre Team results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/827?tab=results

Budapest Women’s Sabre individual YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMXCsHCQQvA&list=PL_pQQho0KExzRCXBv1q1X2chu3nkCBLsq

Budapest Men’s Sabre Individual YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOszmAsBrWs&list=PL_pQQho0KExzx_sLOVTnBf5ffyMS1NygH

Budapest Women’s Sabre Team YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqb1nFNYdaY&list=PL_pQQho0KExwchEvT0L0t8eaUUrrU2vya

Budapest Men’s Sabre Team YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjBCF1eUmOU&list=PL_pQQho0KExx8A_BYE7qzUDM4g1vFcde3

Have a look for The Fenced In Podcast and Japan Sport Stories wherever you listen to podcasts and track down Stro: The Michael D’Asaro Story for a fascinating documentary of a life well-lived.

Good news! Fencing is back … of sorts. It’s almost a year to the day and so we’ve decided to get the gang back together again. Hurrah.

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Upcoming competitions: https://fie.org/competitions

The gang are all together again and we’re edging towards the end of the Olympic qualification process which means some fencers will be celebrating guaranteeing their place in Tokyo while others will be heartbroken. Sean tracks the foil action from Cairo (men’s) and Kazan (women’s) as the team places are sorted out for the Olympics and some fencers do themselves the world of good for individual qualification. Kate gets very excited about the men’s sabre in Warsaw and finds her thing to have a minor rant about and Gav adds to the short list of fencing wizards Also, Gav gets a new follower on Instagram. You should follow him too. Plus, The Coolest Fencer on the Planet and what’s coming up next.

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Cairo men’s foil results (no live stream)

Individual: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/138?tab=results

Team: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/761?tab=results

Warsaw men’s sabre:

Individual finals: https://youtu.be/Hd2y1JSud90

Team finals: https://youtu.be/JX_B6aGf4LA

Kazan women’s foil:

Individual finals: https://youtu.be/OnEZtwiGP98

Team finals: https://youtu.be/jg3E7Rw4rUQ

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It’s [mostly] epee day here at Podcast towers. Sean & Gav talk about the recent epee competitions: Doha, Barcelona, Vancouver. That’s a lot of epee. The Fencing is great but there’s something bothering both of them, listen and find out what.

And then there’s the Turin Grand Prix!

Also some interesting stuff in the fencing news, a new film has entered production and Race Imboden has an Ask Me Anything on Reddit!

Doha Epee Grand Prix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDjJGK1LPN8

Barcelona Womens Epee

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA40s4GODjkaJ9JeM0fBcdg/playlists

Vancouver Mens Epee

Individual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9w_PEzOZsE

Teams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcgjuhdgXYU

Turin Foil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paZo-eu5wzU

Fencer - a new film in production

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zoe-saldana-boards-fencing-movie-fencer-casey-affleck-producing-1279201

Race Imboden’s AMA on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fencing/comments/f1qx37/hello_reddit_my_name_is_race_imboden_ask_me/

It's a bit late but in this episode, Sean and Gav are back from Paris with tales of daring and heroism (not their own). We cover all the action from Katowice (women's foil), Heidenheim (men's epee) and we mull over the results from the impossible to follow women's epee action from Havana. And Kate plays a blinder by being rude to Sean and Gav, insulting a prominent Russian women's sabreur and her own coach while talking us through the Montreal sabre Grand Prix. Top effort! The Coolest Fencer on the Planet goes to ….. someone you weren't expecting! Paris MF teams https://youtu.be/xpeGhLkw6nI

Women’s sabre finals Montreal GP https://youtu.be/vh8y-vuB3LQ

Men’s sabre finals Montreal GP https://youtu.be/SjLrZbmHSq8

Katowice women’s foil individual finals https://youtu.be/1EQ65_9dYMc

Katowice women’s foil team finals https://youtu.be/_91B6QNn6CQ

Heidenheim men’s epee individual final https://youtu.be/yZpo4SWONL8

Heidenheim men’s epee team finals https://youtu.be/vk9Oh4SBNNo

Havana women’s epee World Cup - meh! Sorry, no.