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Remember that this is a martial art. If you can’t see what’s happening, the slow-mo replay should help.

Note that Lei acknowledges to the referee that the first point is against him—in an Olympic gold medal bout.

Gentlemanly.

Most people’s reflexes are in the 1/10th of a second range. A fencer’s is in the 1/32nd of a second range.

The fastest moving object at the Olympics is the marksman’s bullet. The second fastest is the tip of a fencing sword.

32 posted on 09/08/2013 7:12:30 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)

A lot of folks seem to have forgotten the Olympics are first and foremost a contest of the noble arts of war in their many forms.

34 posted on 09/09/2013 3:25:46 AM PDT by Fire_on_High (RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)

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