Olympics - London 2012 - Fencing

[KnightOwl]

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Dates

Sat 28th July - Sun 5th August

Venue

ExCeL (http://www.london2012.com/venue/excel) (London)

Latest News

London 2012 Fencing (http://www.london2012.com/fencing)

[KnightOwl]

Saturday 28th July
Women's Individual Foil

10:30 - 6 matches for remaining places
11:50 - Round of 32
14:10 - Round of 16
15:30 - Quarter Finals
18:00 - Semi Finals
19:10 - Bronze Medal Match
19:40 - Gold Medal Match


Fighting it out for the last few places in the round of 32 will be Great Britain's Anna Bentley, Sophie Troiano and Natalia Sheppard - the latter two take on each other so we are guaranteed to get one Brit through to the main competition!

[Sallydaisy]

Some serious controversy in the fencing - but I'm not clear what it is all about.
Someone is staging a stand-in protest it seems.


Angelica Fratini ‏@angelikf (https://twitter.com/angelikf) Fencing SF Ger-Kor the longest 1 second of the history of sport. After 20 mins of discussion the last point is for German. Pure DRAMA!
The Korean stays there, doesn't leave. Alone. She doesn't leave because she doesn't accept the official decision.


Angelica Fratini ‏@angelikf (https://twitter.com/angelikf) Fencing: Shin is still there. A volounter brings her a bottle of water and a towel. This will be one of the story of London2012

Angelica Fratini ‏@angelikf (https://twitter.com/angelikf) @jamEYYoo (https://twitter.com/jamEYYoo) one second for the last shot. The German hits, but for the Korean the time was over.

[Hawkeye]

The Koreans foiled again, nothing to be gained by this sabre-rattling.

[Sallydaisy]

You may have a point.

[Sallydaisy]

This is from the BBC live updates:-


But just as you've caught your breath from the goings on in the North Greenwich Arena, it seems it's all kicking off at the ExCel in the women's epee fencing semi-final.


South Korean fencer Shim A Lam was beaten by Germany's Britta Heidermann an hour ago but is refusing to move from the competition area. She's sitting down, dejected, towel around her shoulders and is refusing to move. It's been a hour. South Korea are said to be submitting an appeal against the defeat.




BBC Sport analyst Karim Bashir on Shin A Lam's appeal against her women's individual epee semi-final defeat to Britta Heidemann: "First up it is official the written appeal has gone in. There's a call to have a press conference right now but my understanding is that the international federation will not be holding a press conference during the time because it is unfair on the athletes involved.

"They are preparing a written statement but they won't give any detail on who will be involved in making that decision and how they will come to it. This is not going to be resolved in the next five minutes. It will take some time."




The fencer is still sat there, cheesed off, but there appears to be some sort of conference between officials and the Korean coaches.
It may sound farcical to you, but you try moving an angry woman holding a sword...

It's thirsty work, protesting. Fencer Shim A Lam, who is an hour in to her sit-down protest against her defeat to Germany's Britta Heidermann in the epee semi-final, has been handed a bottle of water from the organisers. Meanwhile, officials, organisers and the South Korean team are in chaos around her trying to resolve the situation. To be honest, Shim A Lam looks pretty comfortable, sat down on the piste (competition area), with her elbows on her knees. I wonder what she's thinking?



We have movement! Shim A Lam is on her feet and ushered away from the piste. She is in tears, in absolute bits. There is a huge round of applause from the crowd as well.

I don't think we will have heard the end of this.

[davech]

It may sound farcical to you, but you try moving an angry woman holding a sword...

:rolling:

[Sallydaisy]

The angry woman lost out in the bronze medal match too ..........

Angelica Fratini ‏@angelikf (https://twitter.com/angelikf) Fencing:No miracle, the Korean Shin lost 15-11. Bronze medal for the Chinase Sun but Shin won the hearts of spectators. Long,warm applause