Fencing

One of the hottest young stars in fencing, Tommaso Marini collected team silver with Italy and wore a sweatband with the LGBTQ flag colors.

Four days after becoming the first Black American to win an Olympic women’s fencing medal, Scruggs has another, boosting the Team LGBTQ tally too.

Lauren Scruggs took home a silver medal in women's foil at the Grand Palais, as USA teammate Lee Kiefer won gold.

Lauren Scruggs has been fencing since she was 6. Now she is the first out Black lesbian taking her Princess-Bride-like event to the Olympics.

Hirsch fences for Wayne State University. He may be the first trans man to compete in an NCAA Men’s Regional.

After moving from the Northeast to Missouri, Abram Gregory transitioned from athlete to coach and from cisgender to genderqueer.

Terry Hayes will compete in wheelchair fencing at the Paralympics, where her love for sports promises to shine through.

Six elite French athletes came out at once in a TV documentary. They include three current Olympian and a gold medal winner.

Fencing used to be one of those events that the Europeans owned, and the Americans got their. Tradition does tell. Europeans invented fencing, after all. Even though they exported it to the Americas with the Spanish soldiers, and the Virginia and Maryland colonial gentlemen, and even the Puritans, somehow the genie of the sport kept […]