If you check out this interview with Valentina Vezzali over at Schermaonline you’ll get some nice insights into Italian fencing and good quotes from Vezzali.

Why does she make me sick?  Well, she’s won her 9th World Cup Title, 5th World Championship and she says in the interview that she’s performing at “only about 60% - 70%” since coming back from an injury.

I’ll take that kind of 70% there performance.  Meanwhile, Italy continues to dominate women’s foil with 4 of the top-8 and 3 of the top-4 in the individual competition.