Women and Fencing - They’ve come a long way.
I loved Nike’s “Let us play sports” ads because of how they portrayed girls that wanted to play sports and benefitted from it. Fencing has come a long way since I started - we used to have only women’s foil contested at the world and NCAA level and now all three weapon disciplines are represented in NCAA competition and at the Olympic level.
Now, the women’s sabre team is the PR focus of the USFA, with top individual and team rankings and expectations of gold in Beijing - not something that would have been predicted 12 years ago.