Olympic Fencing News

SINGAPORE: Over the next two days, 26 athletes from the Asia-Oceania region will take part in the sport of modern pentathlon to vie for a chance to compete at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games next year.

LOCAL epee fencer Amy Radford is hoping the future points to a double success. One goal is the 2012 London Olympics, the other is to do well next June in her GCSE's. Currently in year 11 at Haybridge High School, Hagley, Amy has to juggle her fencing with her school work, but at just 15 years old she is already the under 17 British No 1 and double ...

Canadian ski racer John Kucera's Olympic dreams ended in a cruel tangle of limbs and broken bones last month.

The only difference for the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist when she hit Beijing's Laoshan velodromeA on TuesdayA was the fact that her chances of winning gold at the 2012 Games in London had ben substantially increased.

As the young Wayne Johnson, it was hard to feel all that significant in the world.

WORK to restore a royal park after it is used for Olympic horse-riding could go on until 2015, according to a planning application.

A recent report on government sports funding in Australia pricks the Own the Podium balloon Canada has been flying so successfully on the run-up to Feb.

PLAYGROUNDS and sport pitches in the area are set to benefit from a A 4.7m makeover in time for the 2012 Olympic games.

A Vancouver-based civil liberties watchdog group is urging that plainclothes police officers not be allowed to participate in protests at the Olympic Games.

Denial, anger, depression, bargaining and acceptance. Canada's Sherraine Schalm went through all five stages of grieving in a span of about 10 minutes shortly after her first-round loss Wednesday in the Olympic women's individual epee fencing.

Hermann Maier of Austria practises in preparation for the finals of the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Men's Downhill in November 2005.

Whenever you visit Olympic Park, you can be guaranteed of beautiful scenery. Even though we are on the brink of winter, the park does not feel that cold.

For many high school students, the word "fencing" is something they might keep animals, such as their pets, enclosed in.

On November 7th I took part in the Olympic Memory Marathon , a video project by artist Simon Pope capturing 104 Londoners talking about their experience of the Olympics, whilst he walked the length of a marathon through the streets of the boroughs hosting the 2012 games .

LONDON may be the host city of the 2012 Olympics, but the entire nation has a role to play - not least here in Derbyshire.

Will Brady of Howell hopes to duplicate in three years what Livonia native Sheila Taormina accomplished for the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: qualify for the Olympics in modern pentathlon.

UK businesses are battling for Olympic contracts as the Olympic Stadium looks to live up to its projected grandeur enlarge It is the world's most demanding shopping list, containing requests for 1,100 shuttlecocks and 5,000 tons of sand, as well as three metal detectors.

By far the biggest impact of bringing the 2015 Pan American Games to the GTA would be the boost to the region's sporting facilities.

By NICK HARTWELL RISING Capital fencing star Lisa McKenzie has set her sights on following in the footsteps of her father Don by representing Britain at the London 2012 Olympics.

While most of the sporting community will be focused on the upcoming Olympic Games in Vancouver next year, younger athletes will be concentrating on starting the process to be future Olympians.