PARIS – Another night at the Grand Palais, another grand achievement for Notre Dame. With a fencing team featuring individual champion Lee Kiefer of the Fighting Irish, the United States won Olympic ...
Lexington native and 3-time Olympic fencing gold medalist Lee Kiefer returned to Kentucky Tuesday after a historic performance during the Paris Olympics.Kiefer claimed her second consecutive gold ...
Olympic fencing at Paris 2024 brought enough drama to last us four years. Here are the biggest stories plus all the replays, ...
Lee Kiefer—now the first American fencer in history to own three Olympic gold medals and the first American woman to win two fencing golds at a single Games—cried on the top of the podium Thursday ...
PARIS — At the same time Simone Biles added to her all-time résumé on Thursday night with a gold medal for U.S. gymnastics, another American athlete was building her own legacy on the other side of ...
PARIS — Lee Kiefer first fenced at an international competition when she was 14 years old. For the first few years, the U.S. women’s foil team rarely escaped the first day of a major tournament. Even ...
PARIS, France — If it were a separate nation, Notre Dame would rank ninth in gold medals and 10th in total medals at the Paris Olympics. The Fighting Irish increased their counts to three golds and ...
Lee Kiefer became the first American fencer to win three Olympic gold medals as the U.S. got its first-ever team fencing gold in women's foil at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. The team of two-time ...
Fencing has been part of every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Olympics in Athens. Fencing’s origins can be found in swordplay, which has been practiced ...
If Lee Kiefer is going to become the first U.S. woman to earn an individual foil medal at the Olympics, she’s off to a strong start this year. Kiefer became the first U.S. fencer to qualify for the ...