When Mariel Zagunis won the women's sabre fencing gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, few people outside the fencing community seemed to notice. But her performance, which gave ...

James Ellingworth of the Associated Press noted there hadn't been an all-U.S. final in an Olympic fencing event since 2008 when Mariel Zagunis defeated Sada Jacobson. Kiefer won her second ...

All three are first-time Olympians. Paris marks the first Olympics to not include Mariel Zagunis, the 2004 and 2008 Olympic women's sabre champion, since the 2000 Sydney Games. Zagunis stepped ...