Sword in hand, armour fastened, helmet on: a boisterous group of teenagers gets into fencing gear at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium. Ever since the lockdown eased, this group resumed training here: gathering every morning and evening, as well as in between online classes, to practise at the stadium’s ashy Fencing Hall. Now that Tamil Nadu’s — more specifically, Old Washermanpet’s …
The modern sport of Fencing became an increasingly organised competitive sport late in the 19th century. Chadalavada Anandha Sundhararamana Bhavani Devi or CA Bhavani Devi on Sunday scripted history to become the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. Devi hadn’t heard of the sport until it was introduced in her school in Chennai when she was 9, …
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