Team USA’s Men’s Foil Fencers Aim To Parry Their Way To Gold: “Together, We Are Unstoppable”
All told the foursome each owns at least one Olympic medal, plus a combined 25 world championships medals.
All told the foursome each owns at least one Olympic medal, plus a combined 25 world championships medals.
PARIS — Olympic athletes are good at a lot of things, but losing is not one of them.After three Americans advanced in the round of 16 for men’s individual foil, 24-year-old Nick Itkin was the only U.S. man left standing. After an impressive three-bout ...
When he was growing up in Los Angeles, Nick Itkin had a predictable daily routine. After school, he would go to his father’s gym, where he’d watch fencers parry while doing his homework.“Our family spent all our days in that gym,” Itkin recalled. “We’r...