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Sean and Gav discuss the sport the love - the Olympic sport of fencing
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And It's Goodbye From Us
All good things must come to an end and this is also true of The Fencing Podcast. This is our final episode and, in truth, there is very little chat about actual fencing but we hope you enjoy it anyway.
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Episode 65 Olympics Preview
Gav updates us on his travel plans and his vital contribution to the Games. Kate, Gav and Sean put their heads together to make their predictions for the Tokyo Olympics and find that they are, disconcertingly, often in agreement. We also find that the Prediction Game that we’re playing against each other brings out our worst competitive instincts. We’d love to hear your predictions and the thinking behind them (see the description below and email: thefencingpodcast@gmail.com) The team also reveal the other sports that they’re looking forward to watching.
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Episode 64: The Kids Are Alright
This week Kate, Sean and Gav look back at their highlights of the Cadet & Junior World Championships in Cairo and look forward to the Olympic zonal qualifiers. Kate and Gav invent ASMR fencing commentary and Sean pays tribute to the late President of British Fencing, Keith Smith.
Sean also chats to Johnny Davis, the British team manager, prior to the European zonal qualifiers in Madrid.
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Episode 63: Ruthless Serial Winners
Sean talks a load of foil (Kate and Gav get to chip in occasionally) as the action heads to Doha for the foil Grand Prix. The return of the game (foil, obviously) and while there were a lot of early departures, there were also a lot of familiar faces at the end of the day. Olympic places were decided, some big names miss out. Gav shares some horrifying mental images early in the episode so make sure you're sitting down. Good times and sad times for British Fencing.
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An Abundance of Epee
In this episode the team discuss a week of epee… well almost. It took several days for the final Epee world cup in Kazan to run! And as you’d expect in this era it was carnage. Gav gets very excited about the mens epee team final, quite right too. Kate even admits she watched some of it!
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Episode 61: All The Sabre Dudes
Kate, Gav and Sean actually have some real, live fencing to talk about!! Budapest saw international fencing return with a men's and women's sabre World Cup and it was glorious. Everything you could have asked for including more Olympic qualification, some surprises, a few absentees, additional face masks and potentially some Olympic dress rehearsals.
Customer Reviews
Great discussion of high level fencing with strong accents
The Fencing Podcast is an insightful and nuanced look at a complicated sport at the top levels.
Don't be discouraged by the audio quality of episode 1, they definitely received the feedback and corrected it going forward.
The hosts are experienced fencers and are talking about what is going on at the international level. If you're thinking that how things are in your own club is how it should be everywhere, this may be eye opening. There is a bit of a UK focus but top athletes from all over the world are covered and it is definitely not parochial. Give it a listen and prepare to learn.