This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. On Sunday in Paris, with a flick of the wrist and an exultant scream, a 30-year-old medical student named Lee Kiefer made history when she became the first American fencer to win gold medals in foil fencing at two consecutive Olympic Games. Indeed, with her second-place finish, Scruggs became the only American …
Lee Kiefer celebrates after winning gold in an all-American women’s foil final at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. But on Sunday evening at the 2024 Paris Olympics, it was two Americans who claimed possession of the sport, charging into the finals of the women’s foil competition at the storied Grand Palais. Three years after her unexpected gold at the Tokyo …
PARIS — One was born into the sport; the other wandered her way into it. One is history, the first American to win Olympic gold in foil, a woman who considers it her job to grow her sport; the other is the future, the NCAA foil champion and the benefactor of the road her opponent has paved. On a glorious …
