Team USA hasn’t always been the best at fencing! A fancy european sport, it’s always seemed. But, hey, then this big African American dude who wanted to use a saber since he was five years-old turns up, put’s in a nerve racking performance and scores the USA’s first silver since 1904, over 100 years!
This man is Daryl Homer, a seemingly stand up man, and now a man with a medal in a sport not exactly dominated by black men! Respect and congrats to Darryl!
TeamUSA.org wrote:
As he was being chased down, nearly tripping off of the strip entirely, American saber fencer Daryl Homer somehow snuck his blade into German fencer Matyas Szabo’s ribs for a point during his quarterfinal bout. The point was heralded with chants of “U-S-A” from the audience, with the painted faces and bodies usually reserved for American football games, not for what could be called modern-day dueling.
Regardless, Homer deserved the chants and cheers. He went on to win a silver medal, a victory that brought about the first multi-medal Olympics for the United States in individual men’s fencing since 1904, as Alex Massialas won silver in foil on Sunday. Homer lost the gold-medal bout to Aron Szilagyi of Hungary, 15-8. He became the first U.S. medalist in men’s saber since Peter Westbrook won a bronze medal in 1984 and the first U.S. men’s silver medalist since William Grebe in 1904. The U.S. has never won gold in men’s saber.
“I wouldn’t have found an access point to fencing without Peter,” he said.
See Darryl talk below and read more here: http://go.teamusa.org/2aZcXEG
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