The modern version of the dueling rapier, the foil is perhaps the best known fencing apparatus. The teaching weapon for the other swords, it has a flexible blade and is used chiefly for thrusting. The ...

Wheelchair fencing has been a Summer Paralympic event since 1960, but this will be the first time at these games that blind fencers touch swords to showcase the sport’s inclusivity and adaptability.

“He is not bad,” Dickinson quipped of Jolyot. Dickinson got into swords and fencing when he was 14, after a metalworking teacher at his boarding school in England — who also happened to ...