Aron Szilagyi experienced a few early career missteps in sports, but the distinct sound of swords clashing ultimately guided him to become the first male fencer to win three Olympic individual titles.

The European Senior Fencing Championships have come to an end, with 12 individual and team events for men and women in the disciplines of epee, foil and sabre. The event took place in the St. Jakobshalle, with fencers from 38 countries taking part.

With a “liberated heart” the French Olympic fencer announced that she will compete again after having been provisionally suspended, then cleared for doping and is now eyeing Paris 2024 “relieved and happy.”

The International Fencing Federation has completed its 2023-2024 Senior World Cup competition season. The four events were held last weekend, from 17 to 19 May 2024.

Over 50 members of the American fencing community - including former world sabre champion Nikolay Kovalev - have signed an open letter to the board of US Fencing (also known as USA Fencing) saying athletes have "no confidence" in its investigation of bout manipulation allegations.

Members of the USA national fencing team have issued a statement via international athletes advocacy group Global Athlete expressing their dismay at the recent decision by their national governing body, USA Fencing, to impose  "weak and futile" suspensions on two referees.

The European Fencing Confederation says no fencers from Russia or Belarus will participate in the Paris Olympics after those eligible under a neutral banner did not enter for European qualifiers, according to Agence France-Presse.

The fencer, who was suspended on 8 February for a positive test during a stage of the World Championships in Paris, said on Tuesday that the ingestion was involuntary and waived the analysis of the B sample.

Jeon Cheong-jo was arrested last year on suspicion of stealing more than 3 billion won (€2.1 million). Nam is a former fencer who won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She ended her relationship when the case came to light, saying she had been cheated.

Five months before the Olympic Games, French fencer Ysaora Thibus, 2022 World Champion, has been provisionally suspended by the International Fencing Federation. As the French Fencing Federation (FFE) announced on Friday, this is due to an abnormal anti-doping test carried out on 14 January.

Hungary's double Olympic champion and honorary member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Pál Schmitt, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hungarian Sports Journalists' Association at The Athlete of the Year 2023 Gala in Budapest this week. The trophy was presented to Pál Schmitt by Madame President Katalin Novák, Hungary's Head of State, and Zsolt Gyulay, President of the Hungarian Olympic Committee and a double Olympic champion himself.

Sergey Brida and his wife Violeta Brida are accused of competing at the US Championships without Moscow's consent. Their participation in the Paris 2024 Olympics is still under discussion.

The United Arab Emirates excelled on the second day of fencing's World Combat Games debut as they won half of the sport's gold medals on offer today at Riyadh 2023.

The Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) has backed a candidacy from three-time back-to-back Olympic men's sabre fencing champion Áron Szilágyi for the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Commission elections alongside next year's Olympic Games in Paris.

Only 10 months before the start of Paris 2024, the head of France's most successful Olympic sport has resigned.