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Captain Lori McLaughlin shone for Harvard in the loss to Notre Dame, but the Crimson senior was unable to overcome the performance of nationally ranked Irish fencer Molly Sullivan, who easily handled all three of her opponents...
...Crimson fencer, however, was able to defeat the Irish's Charles Higgs Coulthard, who was last year's NCAA foil champion. The Notre Dame senior easily put down his three opponents...
Among the unknown Americans, Archer Rick McKinney won a silver medal. Pentathlete Mike Storm helped his team to a silver and finished fifth in individual competition. Single-Scull Rower John Biglow came in fourth, the women's flatwater kayaking team also placed fourth, and Fencer Jana Angelakis lost in the preliminaries. Weight Lifter Kevin Winter dropped out because of injuries...
Fencing has contributed many useful words to the language, but the average American cannot tell a feint from a foible or a parry from a riposte. This ignorance is heartbreaking to fencers, who delight in giving ten-minute explanations of the attack, parry, return and continuation, which make up a "fencing conversation," but which, to the untrained eye, are only a millisecond flash of two blades. In America, fencing competitions are incomprehensible to outsiders. "We are a small, poor, truly amateur sport," says Stephen Sobel, secretary of the U.S. Olympic Committee and a saber fencer. "We all know each other...
Afterward international ties of friendship were cemented in the lobby. "Are you a fencer?" asked an American of a French girl. "Sure." "Hey! Wow! Touché!" -By Jane O'Reilly