Keeth and Erinn Smart on Top 100 Olympians to Watch
Keeth and Erinn Smart made the list of “Top 100 Olympians to Watch” by Time Magazine.
The city slickers of the sport, the brother/sister duo from Brooklyn trained at a New York City fencing school that groomed inner-city youth in this elite European sport. Keeth, who became the first U.S. fencer to gain the No. 1 ranking, is back for his third shot at a medal in saber; Erinn fenced in Athens. They’ve had a heart-breaking year: in May their mother, Liz, died after a two year battle with colon cancer, on the heels of their father’s 2005 passing from a sudden heart attack.
French epeeist Laura Flessel-Colovic comes in at #30 on the list.