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Creating the Nike Ballestra Fencing Shoes

As part of the Nike branding launch for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Nike.com created a nice multimedia press site highlighting the various products that were launching at the Olympics. One of the products was the Ballestra, the fencing shoe designed by Nike with input from world class fencers.

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Zhong Earns China’s First Gold

The stands were shaking and the noise levels at the Fencing Hall well above most rock concerts as ZHONG Man of China scored 6 unanswered

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Smart Fencing Gets Keeth to Top 8

"Keeth, you are going to lose this bout if you run away." That was the message delivered by coach Yuri Gelman during the break in

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August 12th Podcast

Quick recap of the first three days of fencing from Beijing and a few other random observations. {audio}http://media.fencing.net.s3.amazonaws.com/podcast/Beijing-080812.mp3{/audio}

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Vezzali Golden Again

34 year old Valentina Vezzali became the first Italian to win three consecutive gold medals when she defeated Korea’s Nam Hyunhee 6-5 in the gold