Rio 2016 fencing competition to combine patience, power and precision (Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016)

(Source: Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016) A sport that requires patience and precision, fencing is also about passion. After long physical and mental battles filled with parries and ripostes, fencers often drop to their knees in joy to celebrate a hard-fought win. Fencing has been part of the Olympic Games since its inception. In its early days, tempers would sometimes boil over. After his team was disqualified from the Paris 1924 Olympic Games, Italian fencer Oreste Puliti challenged a Hungarian judge to a duel. The judge accepted and months after the competition, the pair squared off in a battle that left them both bloodied. Fortunately, in the modern era...