Grid fencing Olympics. Evil Empire

From August 6 to 14, Rio de Janeiro will host olympic fencing competition. The Olympic fencing tournament will last 9 days. Medals will be played out in six individual and four team disciplines.

the site brings to your attention the complete schedule of fencing competitions at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro; use the program so as not to miss the performances of your favorite athletes. Cheer for your favorites, let the strongest win!

Fencing. Schedule of fencing competitions at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

August 6. Saturday -
Sword. Women. Individual championship
22:00 Semi-finals

August 7. Sunday -
Rapier. Men. Individual championship
22:00 Semi-finals
23:15 Fight for third place
23:45 Final. Award ceremony

8 August. Monday -
Saber. Women. Individual championship
22:00 Semi-finals
23:15 Fight for third place
23:45 Final. Award ceremony

August 9. Tuesday -
Sword. Men. Individual championship
22:00 Semi-finals
23:15 Fight for third place
23:45 Final. Award ceremony

10th of August. Wednesday -
Rapier. Women. Individual championship
23:30 Semi-finals
01:20 Fight for third place
02:15 Final. Award ceremony
Saber. Men. Individual championship
00:30 Semi-finals
01:50 Fight for third place
02:45 Final. Award ceremony

11th August. Thursday -
Sword. women. Team Championship
19:15 Semi-finals

12th of August. Friday -
Rapier. Men. Team Championship
18:00 Semi-finals
23:00 Fight for third place
00:30 Final. Award ceremony

August 13. Saturday -
Saber. Women. Team Championship
17:30 Semi-finals
23:00 Fight for third place
00:15 Final. Award ceremony

August 14. Sunday
Sword. Men. Team Championship
19:15 Semi-finals
23:00 Fight for third place
00:30 Final. Award ceremony

Monday ended enchantingly for Russian sports fans. Just when the clock hands in Moscow were passing midnight, one of the most exciting fights of recent years took place in Rio de Janeiro - two Russian women competed against each other in the final of the saber tournament. Sophia the Great And Yana Yegoryan.

And if it weren’t for the Imperial March, which personifies everything evil in the Star Wars film, which the organizers, either intentionally or out of thoughtlessness, placed before the Russian final, nothing would have overshadowed this wonderful Russian evening. But we knew that this evil march only preceded the Russian anthem, which would inevitably sound at the end of the fight, no matter who won.

Sophia is not great yet

The favorite of this fight, of course, was Sophia the Great, who ranks first in the world rankings. It seemed that she had been going towards this victory all her life. She was the first “natural saber fencer” in our team - a girl who did not switch to this sport from another, but immediately began fencing with a saber.

The athlete could have become truly great much earlier - four years ago in London, at the anniversary XXX Summer Olympic Games. It didn’t work out - in the final the Russian was up against a Korean athlete Kim Ji-young. It is unknown what happened on the platform, but Sophia gave up almost without a fight - the Korean won with a score of 15:9.

Olympic final in London. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

It is difficult to imagine how the fate of the Russian woman would have developed after the Olympic Games if she had been successful. Even before the start, she had thoughts of ending her career if she won. You still won’t jump higher than a gold medal, and continuing to fencing, having crossed into the fourth decade for the sake of repeating success, is not the best motivator for a girl.

But fate had its own way. The defeat only provoked the Great One. At that moment, she realized that she could not avoid another four-year training cycle - the gold medal hanging around the Korean woman’s neck shone too brightly in her eyes.

Since then, Sophia, greedy for victories, has won two world champion titles and won the European Championship five times. She has long proven to the whole world that she is the best saber fencer on the planet. All that remained was to prove it to herself - to win gold at the Olympic Games.

But when Sophia just started fencing, she couldn’t even think that she would ever even be at the Olympic Games. And the point here is not even that the girl did not believe in herself. It’s just that until the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, women’s saber was not included in the program of the Summer Olympics.

After it became known that women's saber fencing competitions were still included in the program of the Olympic Games, many average foil fencers, who could hardly count on winning in their sport, began to retrain and switch to saber.

Sophia was different from them. For a long time, she was the only “natural saber fencer” in the entire Russian team. And she proved time after time that relearning is both more difficult and worse than starting to learn something from the very beginning.

In 2003, 18-year-old Sophia Velikaya already became the European champion - the medal was won in the French Bourges in team competition. This was followed by further victories at the continental and planetary championships as part of the team in 2004. In 2005, Sophia became second on the planet, winning silver. And in 2006, Velikaya received her first personal victory - in Izmir she became the European champion, winning not only in the team competition, but also in the individual competition.

However, Sophia had to wait another five years for the first title of world champion, which she would not have to share with anyone. Only in 2011, on the eve of the start of the London Olympics, was she able to win the title of the strongest saber fencer on the planet - this fateful event took place in Italian Catania, where Russia also won the team championship.

Sophia the Great (right), 2006. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

But, if it weren’t for Gregory the Great... Not the Gregory the Great who was Pope at the turn of the 6th-7th centuries, but Sophia’s older brother. So, if it weren’t for him, perhaps we wouldn’t have such a wonderful Olympic champion.

At one time, Gregory was the first to leave to train in Moscow. He took up fencing and showed some promise. At some point, he called Sophia in Alma-Ata and said that, according to his information, women's saber fencing could soon be included in the program of the Olympic Games. He invited his sister to try herself in this sport and even recommended a young coach, Dmitry Glotov, who was his friend.

Deciding that being a natural saber fencer was much better than retraining from a rapier, having weighed all the pros and cons, the very young Sophia packed her things and set off to conquer Moscow.

The student surpassed the teacher

But Sophia, apparently, was not destined to win at the Olympics. She was surpassed by another “natural saber fencer”, much younger and more hungry for victories - 22-year-old Yana Yegoryan.

The girl had just begun to join the Russian national team when the whole world was already talking about Sophia, and her defeat at the Olympic Games in London was considered an unfortunate accident - in 2012. However, in four short years, the aspiring saber fencer, who had just moved from juniors to the adult category, not only entered the top five best saber fencers on the planet, but also began to challenge the recognized masters of this matter.

Born in the capital of Armenia, the city of Yerevan, the girl and her parents moved to Khimki near Moscow when she was only six years old. Soon she was sent to fencing, which she began to practice under the guidance of Sergei Semin.

Yana Yegoryan. Photo: RIA Novosti / Grigory Sysoev

In 2010, she was already the winner of the Olympic Games, only the youth ones, which were held in Singapore. Since 2012, when she first joined the Russian senior national team. Yana managed to win three gold medals at the European Championships, from 2013 to 2016, and became a winner, silver and bronze medalist at the World Championships. But only one of these awards, bronze at the world championship, was individual for Yana. And now - the Olympics. A chance that Yana has never had before.

Fencing is an Olympic sport in which opponents fight with the help of special sports edged weapons, which are completely safe. Conventional fencing is not at all safe, because it is a combat discipline that was actively used during military operations in the past. But as happened with many martial arts, this discipline these days has also become exclusively sporting in nature.

Participants in fencing games

There will be 212 men and women attending the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 106 each. Based on the results of the competition, 10 sets of medals will be awarded, 5 among women and 5 among men. One country can nominate no more than 16 fencers, and no more than 8 of them are women and men.

The International Fencing Federation uses the principle of discipline rotation for a competition such as the Olympics. The 2016 Summer Olympics will feature different fencing disciplines than were offered at the London Games four years ago. Then the command saber was for men, and the command foil for women. In Rio, the men will have a team epee and the women will have a team saber.

Disciplines common to men and women:

Sword;
Command sword;
Rapier;
Saber.

Summer Olympics participants must prove themselves in order to qualify for the Olympics. For this purpose, Olympic qualification of competitions is provided; each continent has its own qualification. All competitions are regarded as qualifying tournaments. The selection is also influenced by the world ranking of athletes.

Fencing competition calendar

Competitions for those involved in fencing will take place from August 6 to 14. Finals of competitions in a particular discipline will be held daily. Schedule:

August 6: individual epee championship, women;
August 7: men's individual foil championship;
August 8: Women's individual saber championship;
August 9: individual epee championship, men;
August 10: women's individual championship in foil, men's individual championship in saber;
August 11: Women's epee team championship;
August 12: men's team championship in foil;
August 13: Women's saber team championship;
August 14: men's team epee championship.

In each discipline, to win you need to inflict a certain number of blows or injections on your opponent first. The competition is given a certain period of time, after which the fight ends.

Athletes compete in protective clothing: they have jackets made of metallic fabric and masks with rigid mesh. The hand that is not holding the weapon must wear a glove. The weapon is connected to the electrical panel. If a fencer strikes an opponent, this is recorded on the shield and a light comes on. If the blow was of insufficient power, for example, when the athlete only slid over the opponent, the injection is not recorded by the electrical system.

A rapier and a sword require thrusting, but with a saber you can already deliver a chopping blow. Each type of weapon has a guard that protects the working hand from damage. Disciplines differ in the parts of the body allowed to strike.

For the fight, a fencing track is used. Its length is 14 meters.

women Team saber women Qualification 4 1 2 7 2 2 1 1 4 3 1 3 0 4 4 1 1 1 3 5 1 0 1 2 6 1 0 0 1 7 0 2 2 4 8 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 10 0 0 1 1 Total 10 10 10 30

Medalists

Men

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sword
Command sword
Rapier
Command foil
Saber

Women

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sword
Command sword
Rapier
Saber
Team saber	Russia Sophia the Great Yulia Gavrilova Ekaterina Dyachenko Yana Yegoryan 3 (in the lower left corner) Pierre silently peered intently into the aged face of (Prince) Andrei. “No, I’m asking,” said Pierre, “but Prince Andrei interrupted him: - What can I say about me... Tell me, tell me about your journey, about everything you did there on your estates? Pierre began to talk about what he had done on his estates, trying as much as possible to hide his participation in the improvements made by him. Prince Andrei several times suggested to Pierre what he was telling, as if everything that Pierre had done was a long-known story, and he listened not only not with interest, but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was telling. Pierre felt awkward and even difficult in the company of his friend. He fell silent. “But here’s what, my soul,” said Prince Andrei, who was obviously also having a hard time and shyness with his guest, “I’m here in bivouacs, and I came just to have a look.” I'm going back to my sister now. I'll introduce you to them. “Yes, you seem to know each other,” he said, obviously entertaining the guest with whom he now felt nothing in common. - We'll go after lunch. Now do you want to see my estate? “They went out and walked around until lunch, talking about political news and mutual acquaintances, like people who are not very close to each other. With some animation and interest, Prince Andrei spoke only about the new estate and construction he was organizing, but even here, in the middle of the conversation, on the stage, when Prince Andrei was describing to Pierre the future location of the house, he suddenly stopped. “However, there’s nothing interesting here, let’s go have lunch and leave.” “At dinner the conversation turned to Pierre’s marriage. “I was very surprised when I heard about this,” said Prince Andrei. Pierre blushed the same way he always blushed at this, and hastily said: “I’ll tell you someday how it all happened.” But you know that it's all over and forever. - Forever? - said Prince Andrei. – Nothing happens forever. – But do you know how it all ended? Have you heard about the duel? - Yes, you went through that too. “The one thing I thank God for is that I didn’t kill this man,” Pierre said. - From what? - said Prince Andrei. – It’s even very good to kill an angry dog. - No, killing a person is not good, it’s unfair... - Why is it unfair? - repeated Prince Andrei; what is just and unjust is not given to people to judge. People have always been mistaken and will continue to be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider just and unjust. “It is unfair that there is evil for another person,” said Pierre, feeling with pleasure that for the first time since his arrival, Prince Andrei became animated and began to speak and wanted to express everything that made him what he was now. – Who told you what evil is for another person? - he asked. - Evil? Evil? - said Pierre, - we all know what evil is for ourselves. “Yes, we know, but the evil that I know for myself, I cannot do to another person,” Prince Andrei said more and more animatedly, apparently wanting to express to Pierre his new view of things. He spoke French. Je ne connais l dans la vie que deux maux bien reels: c"est le remord et la maladie. II n"est de bien que l"absence de ces maux. [I know in life only two real misfortunes: remorse and illness. And the only good is the absence of these evils.] To live for yourself, avoiding only these two evils: that is all my wisdom now. – What about love for one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice? - Pierre spoke. - No, I cannot agree with you! To live only in such a way as not to do evil, so as not to repent? this is not enough. I lived like this, I lived for myself and ruined my life. And only now, when I live, at least try (Pierre corrected himself out of modesty) to live for others, only now I understand all the happiness of life. No, I don’t agree with you, and you don’t mean what you say. Prince Andrei silently looked at Pierre and smiled mockingly. “You’ll see your sister, Princess Marya.” You’ll get along with her,” he said. “Maybe you’re right for yourself,” he continued, after a short silence; - but everyone lives in their own way: you lived for yourself and you say that by doing this you almost ruined your life, and you only knew happiness when you began to live for others. But I experienced the opposite. I lived for fame. (After all, what is glory? the same love for others, the desire to do something for them, the desire for their praise.) So I lived for others, and not almost, but completely ruined my life. And since then I have become calmer, as I live only for myself. - How can you live for yourself? – Pierre asked heatedly. - And the son, and the sister, and the father? “Yes, it’s still the same me, it’s not others,” said Prince Andrei, but others, neighbors, le prochain, as you and Princess Mary call it, are the main source of error and evil. Le prochain [Neighbor] are those, your Kyiv men, to whom you want to do good. And he looked at Pierre with a mockingly defiant gaze. He apparently called Pierre. “You’re kidding,” Pierre said more and more animatedly. What kind of error and evil can there be in the fact that I wanted (very little and poorly fulfilled), but wanted to do good, and at least did something? What evil can it be that unfortunate people, our men, people just like us, growing up and dying without any other concept of God and truth, like ritual and meaningless prayer, will be taught in the comforting beliefs of a future life, retribution, reward, consolation? What evil and delusion is it that people die from illness without help, when it is so easy to help them financially, and I will give them a doctor, and a hospital, and a shelter for the old man? And isn’t it a tangible, undoubted blessing that a man, a woman and a child have no rest day and night, and I will give them rest and leisure?...” said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. “And I did it, at least poorly, at least a little, but I did something for this, and not only will you not dissuade me that what I did was good, but you will also not disbelieve me, so that you yourself do not think so.” “And most importantly,” Pierre continued, “I know this, and I know it correctly, that the pleasure of doing this good is the only true happiness in life. “Yes, if you put the question like that, then that’s a different matter,” said Prince Andrei. - I build a house, plant a garden, and you are a hospital. Both can serve as a pastime. And what is fair, what is good - leave it to the one who knows everything, and not to us, to judge. “Well, you want to argue,” he added, “come on.” “They left the table and sat on the porch, which served as a balcony. “Well, let’s argue,” said Prince Andrei. “You say schools,” he continued, bending his finger, “teachings and so on, that is, you want to take him out of his animal state and give him moral needs,” he said, pointing to the man who took off his hat and walked past them. , but it seems to me that the only possible happiness is animal happiness, and you want to deprive it of it. I envy him, and you want to make him me, but without giving him my means. Another thing you say is to make his job easier. But in my opinion, physical labor is the same necessity for him, the same condition of his existence, as mental labor is for me and for you. You can't help but think. I go to bed at 3 o’clock, thoughts come to me, and I can’t sleep, I toss and turn, I don’t sleep until the morning because I’m thinking and I can’t help but think, just as he can’t help but plow and mow; otherwise he will go to the tavern, or he will become ill. Just as I cannot bear his terrible physical labor and die in a week, so he cannot bear my physical idleness, he will get fat and die. Third, what else did you say? – Prince Andrei bent his third finger.

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