Asked if he might try to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Games, Homer smiled again. Homer took a moment before stepping to the en garde line. The journey began some 20 years ago, with a little boy looking at a picture of a fencer in a children’s dictionary. The American men have not done this well in Olympic fencing in more than a century. He made the U.S. Olympic team for the 2012 London Games and finished a respectable sixth.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 11, 2016 04:12 UTC