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**SoOW2LeA** · 09-01-2012, 05:41 AM

I was at the womens team epee matches- not the final, had to watch that on TV! I would say that LP did a fantastic job with the staging of the pistes. amazing. well done.

The matches were on the whole good- but there was a lot of passivity- and lots of hair management going on! The boy next to me who was 10 and desperate to learn to fence, left because of the lack of fighting! sounds odd but watching Russia v China- 16 points each at the end of the match and into sudden death at the end won by China.. well sorry but it was a brilliant exhibition of strategy but boring as hell to watch! and i found it sad that they did that. try explaining to a little boy at his first comp why the 2 fencers have decided to stop fencing with 15seconds on the clock- that happened a lot.

it was a brilliant experiance and there was a lot of good fencing- Ukraine went out fighting.. it was also sad to see a whole bank of empty seats when I know how hard it was to get tickets.. and to see so many people go home before the ranking matches because it was 'boring'. even got offerred tickets for the final because the people who had them had had enough and wanted to go home.. but I couldnt stay so I hope they found a good home for those tickets.

But I had fun, and the cable car home to Greenwich was brilliant!

09-01-2012, 05:41 AM	#9
SoOW2LeA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 520 Senior Member	I was at the womens team epee matches- not the final, had to watch that on TV! I would say that LP did a fantastic job with the staging of the pistes. amazing. well done. The matches were on the whole good- but there was a lot of passivity- and lots of hair management going on! The boy next to me who was 10 and desperate to learn to fence, left because of the lack of fighting! sounds odd but watching Russia v China- 16 points each at the end of the match and into sudden death at the end won by China.. well sorry but it was a brilliant exhibition of strategy but boring as hell to watch! and i found it sad that they did that. try explaining to a little boy at his first comp why the 2 fencers have decided to stop fencing with 15seconds on the clock- that happened a lot. it was a brilliant experiance and there was a lot of good fencing- Ukraine went out fighting.. it was also sad to see a whole bank of empty seats when I know how hard it was to get tickets.. and to see so many people go home before the ranking matches because it was 'boring'. even got offerred tickets for the final because the people who had them had had enough and wanted to go home.. but I couldnt stay so I hope they found a good home for those tickets. But I had fun, and the cable car home to Greenwich was brilliant!
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