Staff USA fencers Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs simply confronted off to earn America two extra Olympic medals — and made historical past within the course of.
Kiefer took gold and Scruggs took silver in ladies’s particular person foil on July 28 in Paris throughout the 2024 Summer time Video games. The ultimate rating was 15-6, and the ladies shared a hug following the occasion’s completion.
It was the primary time the ladies’s foil last on the Olympics has featured two American opponents. Scruggs is now the primary Black American lady to medal within the occasion. Lee beforehand received gold in foil fencing throughout the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
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Each Kiefer and Scruggs will subsequent fence collectively within the ladies’s workforce foil occasion after a little bit break — that competitors does not start till Aug. 1.
Forward of her massive second on Sunday, Kiefer stated that successful her first gold in Tokyo got here with “a lot heightened emotion,” in accordance with the official Olympics website. “I used to be actually in disbelief,” she recounted throughout a press convention in Paris. “And to today, I nonetheless have that feeling.”
This Video games, in the meantime, had been the primary for Scruggs, who competes for Harvard College as an undergrad.
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