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Home » Watch » 06ITA World Championships in Torino » Updates! » Saturday, 9/30 P.M.

September 30th, 2006 P.M.

News

FP has found that Andrea Magro, the head coach of Italian Women's Foil, is in charge of Women's Foil and Men's Sabre, now that Bauer has left for China. More as we learn it...

FP Team... meeting old friends

More team members arrived today!

Branimir Zivkovic Jr. is on the team. Branimir will be the in charge of the FP camera operators during the week. We have Evangelos Efstathiou arriving from Boston -- he did the central camera for the Fencing Pictures Madrid DVD. We have also put both Bill and Beth Ward to work, they are the parents of US Women's Sabre team member Rebecca Ward, so they know where to point the cameras.

As Bill reports in today's blog, accreditation today was screams, tears and laughs.

We crossed paths with Sergei Goloubitsky again. And we met Elvis Gregory -- as a coach! We asked him about his most difficult bout and he said it was the final with Golubitsky in La Chaux-De Fonds, 1998. We asked him if he remembered the match, and he said he remembers every touch. For example: instead of a retreat parry riposte, he lost the distance and Sergei earned a point. That was the last match he had with Sergei.

In La Chaux-De Fonds, 1998, Salvatore Sanzo was already 3rd.

Images from the Opening Ceremonies

Saturday Night Fever in Torino, Italy, with a most remarkable opening ceremony... flying fencers... singers... giant foils... athletes and a crowded San Carlo Piazza with enthusuastic Torinians. Even though it started raining, most of the people continued to watch the event.

Torino is filled with the Scherma passion... athletes, people, artists, and chocolate, fashion and many stores.