Atlanta olimpic final fencing foil

[wallstreetatheist]

It's amazing how much audio-visual technology has improved in 15 years.

[mouthforwar17]

i like longsword fighting but this is nice too!

[gamercds]

why does he go hug his father... its because of his coach taht he got so far

[brandonpringle16]

ahah both sides celebrate alot

[zzzazzzaaa1]

No, you can do it if you want! Try and you will see if continue or not. But the olympics games are not for today ;)

[thew0lf1]

i'm only 13 and i think i'm going to try it out

is it really hard or is it a bit easy?

[Blad0506]

@thew0lf1 As everything else in life... If you have dedication and responsability. It won't take you too much to become good in fencing. Most of the World's best fencers have been fencing since they were 7 - 12, so your age is good to start :)

[joemann1313]

@thew0lf1 im 13 to and i really want do it ded bad my dad sez its hard cuz its about attacking its about tricking people n that but i cand find anywaere that duz it near me

[EpicRayman]

@thew0lf1 its quite easy to learn the rules, but if u want to win competitions in fencing u hsve to train a lot, i have trained in 5 years and i´m (only) on the 20 place im sweden

[hotchocol8e]

Foil has a lot of complex rules, so I think what happened is both hit, but in foil someone has to have right of way to get the point. That's what's happening in the first bout.

[SemiClee123]

Did the lights used to be the other way around back then? So your light goes on if you get hit, not like now when your light goes on when you score a hit?

[thisisfunNOT]

I think so, at my club we have one that does that so we just switch around the floor cords

[thanksyounow]

1st viewing and must say the effort for swordplay in those suits looks to me as

though the greatest challenge could be

from ones own capacity for endurance.

[Voiv]

This is pretty accurate.

Since the mid-80s Fencing has been a footwork driven sport similar to the way tennis is nowadays.

So yeah, endurance and fitness are massively important these days as people try to out-maneuver each other anyway they can.

[letheal]

You don't even notice wearing the suit.

[tangoseven70]

Puccini's got a nice disengage and I've always loved Plumenail's lunge.

I wish fencing could find a middle road between the machine timings of that era and this one.

[insight994]

FOIL FENCERS KICK ASS!!! lol But I'm biased. . .

[jacobbobcorn]

dam puccini's repost attack is freakin insane. its clear that plumenail got him first like twice in this bout, but puccini's repost always gets him back with the right of way....

[keksmuzh]

Puccini is so fast.....it's scary

[cdavistwo]

amazing match. both of their fundamentals are practically superhuman

[iyogurtcafe]

i really like the slow motin replays. Good Stuff.

[Trulyloyale]

Though I was just a boy when this happened, I remember so well Andrea Puccini and his fantastic gold medal .

As for tech skills and reflexes shown we've never have seen such an amazing men's Foil Olympic Final since that year .

Andrea Puccini = gold medal

[whitesoxsfan900]

i fence foil and what they're doing is amazing, the skills and reflexes needed to do this is hard to make, i respect these guy

[Vendetta5246]

Nice ^^

[bbwbb2]

Puccini sure does keep reaching up for his mask while fencing, probably a habit, but maybe far enough out of distance for the director not to give a card for covering target area, I don't know .

[limescout]

Mask isn't target.

[bbwbb2]

I Know the mask isn't a target, I was referring to Puccini bringing his hand forward and reaching for his mask, while fencing several times, his fore arm would still be covering target, but they could be just far enough out of distance for the director not to say anything,and it does look like he changes masks because his bib is soaked at the last bout, Still awesome fencing from Puccini, peace out.

[limescout]

sorry I missunderstood, great fencing though :)

[bbwbb2]

No problem, peace.

[cotedubois]

it's Puccini..... not Puchini

[childofmetis]

And Olympic, not olimpic.

[Makingnewnamesisdumb]

And it's "tomato," not "tomato."

[insaneguy55]

some good fencing

[clarinette09]

Puccini*

[vicmature]

Exciting fencing!

But, Puccini's victorious vocalizations are quite annoying!

[tatianna2134]

I love fencing.

[paraspectrum]

vinceriamo sempre

[MiliteDiFreezer]

Puccini not Puchini

[cwiskey]

lui ha fatto proprio benissimo..... ma che brutti capelli..

[paraspectrum]

non ti piace?

[cwiskey]

non mi piaciono i capelli, ti piaciono?

[EriolPump]

Bellissime stoccati!

(excuse me for my awful italian...)

Amazing!!!

[Cirifischio88]

Puccini not Puchini

[kieran11235]

that was WONDERFUL!