@@craigvandevooren2341 Which part of this video is "Russia-bashing"?

HEMA is a joke fr.

Dude is mixing everything into one bag.

​@spiceaddict7967 what do you mean by dry fencing? never heard that term before and I do both MoF and HEMA

@spiceaddict7967 gotcha. after doing a few months of MoF I've come to appreciate electrified scoring. but I wouldn't say that non-electric is terrible, nor that HEMA is more about spectacle than actual competiveness

@@matziwakzi5015 you are a joke

If I recall correctly Mariel Zagunis only made it to Athens because Nigeria decided not to send their fencer who had qualified. Zagunis won gold that year too.

@@SlicerSabre in a similar light, the only reason Japan's Men Epee team only participate in 2020/2021Olympics because they were the host (since they weren't qualify the normal way), but suddenly they got gold

Errigo's sabre adventures come to mind, but I think it was more the case that she was told in advance that she couldn't be considered for both teams during the selection period. The situation you're describing where the NOC sets a higher standard than the IOC and FIE is the case in my country. Basically, anyone who qualifies must also be in the top 16 of world rankings for their respective category, or else the NOC won't send them. Because of this, the more feasible route to the Olympics is via team qualification.

@@christianalbertjahns2577 same with the Australian epee team in 2000. I don’t like The rules surrounding Olympic fencing. Suits bigger nation’s perfectly fine though

That's just being biased against Russians as nationality - that's racist right there. Note that US and European athletes been doping left and right - but because sport federations are on their side- they make "exceptions" for them, while simultaneously banning Russian medical substances, that are unique to Russian nation only, even if it is harmless vitamin. Besides, you fail to realize that US fencers were never banned from any world fencings, when US invaded Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan! Neither Ukrainian fencers were ever banned when their government started civil war with Eastern territories. Considering those two obvious facts - Russian fencers should of never been banned to begin with. But no - we got double standards here, what you brand as "free world" - which is full of corruption.

@@digimaks Disparaging a genocidal murderer and his rich, corrupt, murderous drones does not equate to discrimination of all of Russia. If Trump, or even Bezos was the FIE President, I would have the exact same opinion. I was on the WUG Team for USA in Kazan 2014. To this day, I still have living Russian friends whom I appreciate and respect dearly. Is hating Kim Jong-Un the same as hating all North Koreans? You're wrong - American fencers / USOC has never state sponsored a doping program, for Fencers, or any Olympic sport, if not ever, certainly within the last 50 years. Individual American athletes have made the illegal decision to dope, have been caught and stripped of their medals, then shamed/banned for life. Sounds fair to me. MORE should be done to punish the Russian athletes that doped, but that isn't really in the USOC's interest (read: corruption). The one to ban the athletes should be the Russian Olympic Committee...but they are the very cheaters and either have no integrity or respect for their own ability (which is ludicrous, Russian athletes are incredible), or are more likely being manipulated by the state to do so. I also don't think you understand what racism is (actually, 'racism' itself is fiction - we are all the same race.) I THINK you mean ethnic/skin color discrimination, which is still dead wrong since Russia is extremely diverse...probably more non-whites than whites in the totality of it, thanks to all that conquering. Russians are ridiculous with this, you are NOT your state. You just happen to live there. People can hate Russia as a state and its policies, international offenses, without hating the individuals. They are people, like you and I. Unfortunately many are silenced, many more brainwashed into thinking 'I am Russia, Russia is me.' It's quite sad, really. The US didn't invade any of those places...or they'd be part of the United States by now. The USA retaliated. Justified response in all cases? Hell no. But that's the fundamental difference, we were attacked, and retaliated against the offender. Russia is not retaliating, …maybe indirectly against NATO's strategic aggression (whom is not technically* at war), but not to Ukraine. Russia is proactively committing genocide on Ukrainians with the intent of absorbing it back into the Russian state. The age of conquering is over - which makes that internationally illegal. While the Russian people are not responsible individually, as a collective they have enabled this to happen and deserve the consequences for aligning with the leaders they stand behind. That goes for America too, and no I am not proud of MOST of our leaders...but at least I have the freedom to say that. If you have any defense for the leadership of Russia, I have nothing to say to you, for you are already lost.

Dope video

The way in which referees are assigned is by drawing lots, and they are drawn so that four referees do a quarter of the tableau. So it is not unusual or suspicious that one referee referees several bouts for one fencer.

@@wilfie8374 the claim would have credence if the discipline in question is foil or sabre, but Shin and Heidemann fenced epee, which referee almost make no decision for points, at least compared to foil and sabre

i think because he hit, not because of right of way

this. please.

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Exactly - why he makes such a big deal about that?! Rules in fencing change often, why sudden;y he singles out this in particular?

No, he's just being too hateful to Russians in particular. Lots of stuff he said is overstated or downright lie. Tell me, why Russian athletes have to be banned form world sports due to Russin invasion of Ukraine, yet when US invaded dozens fo countries previously- NOT ONCE US athletes have ever been banned in such ruthless way!!!! Neither Ukraine have ever been punished for starting a civil war from 2014 till 2022 against its Eastern population which simply did not agree with the coup -installed govt! This Russia-hate need to stop.

Always has been lol

It's not

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When a Russian uses the word "politics", what that means in English is "cheating".

@@tkrouse1 agree, f.e. west should not ban russian atletes from competitions, that's cheating

@@moXnoX1 You have it reversed, Ivan. Maybe it's your poor English. First Russians cheat (e.g. fraudulent Sochi blood testing lab), then they get suspended. It's not politics - just cheating.

Really convincing argument buddy