Other sculptures in the 2009 trail included The Fencer, Hercules, The Skateboarder, Ballroom Dancing and The Footballer.
In individual competition, each bout is three rounds lasting three minutes each, or until one fencer scores 15 touches.
In team competitions, groups of three compete against each other, with a fencer from each team competing in bouts of up to three minutes.
Finally, there's oodles of first person video from a fencer, horse jumper, trapeze artist, ping pong player and fire juggler, to name a few.
Jean-Blaise Evequoz, 59, a Swiss fencer who competed in the 1976 Olympics, has exhibited his paintings all over the world and has several shows coming up in Italy.
They looked at witness accounts and letters sent by the two artists, concluding that the row ended with Gauguin - a keen fencer - cutting his friend's ear off.
Other attendees at the chapel ceremony were Venezuelan-born Formula One racer Pastor Maldonado and fencer Ruben Limardo, who beat the world's top fencers to win gold at the London Olympics.
The cameras stayed on South Korean fencer Shin A-Lam for more than an hour as she sat on the court, face in her hands amid tearful shudders while judges mulled her coach's appeal.
Events with the sabre, which has a dual edge and a curved guard on the handle, are the only ones where a fencer can score with the edge of the blade, not just the point.
"At the top level, fencers need to specialize in one of the three weapons as the actions and responses" are different for each weapon, says Evelyn Halls, a corporate attorney in Melbourne, Australia, and competitive fencer.
The story of his fencing trip to Melbourne is dramatic, but his success as a fencer and as a business and world leader is hidden in the long stretch between that bout and the Olympics.
The report from the Youth Olympics working group, headed by German Olympic silver medallist and world champion fencer Claudia Bokel, praised Glasgow's bid for its use of existing venues and for drawing on the experience of both the Commonwealth Games and last year's Olympic Games in London.
"I want to see the swimming competition between Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps, I want to see if Ben Ainslie wins his fourth consecutive gold, I want to see if (Valentina) Vezzali the Italian fencer also wins her fourth consecutive gold and many more of these events -- this is the richness of the Olympics, " he said.
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