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the only Olympic sport where you can win by stabbing someone politely.
means The sport or art of fighting with slender swords like the foil, épée, or sabre, governed by strict rules of attack, defense, and right-of-way; also the act of putting up fences, or the receiving and reselling of stolen goods.
from From the verb 'fence,' itself a clipped form of 'defense,' which came through Old French 'defens' from Latin 'defendere' (to ward off, to strike away). So the swordsman's 'fencing' and the property owner's 'fence' share one ancestor: both are about defending — keeping a blade or a trespasser at bay. The thief's 'fence,' meaning a dealer in stolen goods, likely springs from the same idea of 'defending' or shielding a transaction from the law, an 18th-century slang sense.
- lightning speed
- Tips move faster than the human eye tracks.
- old roots
- One of five sports in every modern Olympics since 1896.
- electric scoring
- Hits register in milliseconds via wired body cords.
- right of way
- Two valid hits, only the aggressor scores.
- dueling legacy
- Born from actual sword fights to the death.
sabre fencing — olympic weapon with curved blade, head and torso valid targets, originated from hungarian cavalry sword technique