<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20761591</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:12:43.828-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Por el amor al juego (For the love of the game)</title><subtitle type='html'>Un blog divertido donde intentare hablar de deportes, deportes poco practicados, pero sobretodo de la esgrima. El deporte que elegi practicar y que me dio la oportunidad de conocer el mundo y conocer grandes amigos.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>LHernandez</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01895361065380191158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20761591.post-2641996000443751016</id><published>2007-02-12T13:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-12T13:26:29.070-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Tying to podcast &lt;a href="C:/LHdezSt/My"&gt;C:\LHdezSt\My Documents\My Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20761591-2641996000443751016?l=4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/feeds/2641996000443751016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20761591&amp;postID=2641996000443751016&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/2641996000443751016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/2641996000443751016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/2007/02/tying-to-podcast-clhdezstmy-documentsmy.html' title=''/><author><name>LHernandez</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01895361065380191158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20761591.post-114104845128378262</id><published>2006-02-27T08:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T08:54:14.623-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Una chica con Klass-e / Vengan a jugar con nosotros</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/CindyKlassen.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El dia de hoy, la mayoria de periodicos canadienses hacen mencion a la atleta Cindy Klass. Una joven nacida en Winnipeg, a quien el Comite Olimpico Internacional llamo "La mjuer de los juegos".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cindy (hija de inmigrantes, para no variar, daneses) unicamente gano 5 medallas olimpicas en patinaje de velocidad en los Juegos Olimpicos de Invierno de Turin, los cuales terminaron hoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero mas que reconocer la carrera deportiva de esta estudiante de Psicologia de U de Manitoba, es que nos pongamos a pensar por un momento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mexico en las dos ultimas Olimpiada de Verano ha conseguido 5 medallas, comparadas con las 5 que Cindy gano. En la historia deportiva mexicana, unicamente un atleta (Raul Gonzalez) ha gando dos medallas en unos mismos juegos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cindy, el fin de semana, entro al selecto club de deportistas, donde solo Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis, o Ian Thorpe han logrado conquistar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vemos el desempe&amp;o deportivo que Mexico tiene en comparacion de paises como Australia, Alemania, USA, o el mismo Canada. Sin duda alguna es preocupante. El exito deportivo, vaya la practica de cualquier disciplina deportiva en los paises desarrollados NO es un indicador que se tenga una mejor calidad y estilo de vida que en los paises deportivamente pobres. Pero algo... significa. Aquellos paises con mejor actividad deportiva, incluyendo la amateur, son paises que aunque cuentan con buenos sistemas de salud, sus habitantes gozan en promedio de una mejor salud que aquellos que no.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por supuesto que hay otras actividades mas importantes que la creacion de deportistas, como la educacion y los servicios medicos. Pero mientras en Mexico se siga pensando que unicamente existe como deporte el futbol, nunca saldremos adelante del Tercer-Mundo deportivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Torino 2006 ha terminado, solo me queda invitarles, que dentro de 4 a&amp;amp;os nos visiten en una de las ciudades mas hermosas del mundo. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;"Vengan a jugar con nosotros", &lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;en Vancouver 2010.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/2010Emblem.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vancouver2010.com"&gt;www.vancouver2010.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;P.D. Hoy escribo en Castellano, porque parece ser el PYM, tiene problemas en entender el Ingles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20761591-114104845128378262?l=4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/feeds/114104845128378262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20761591&amp;postID=114104845128378262&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/114104845128378262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/114104845128378262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/2006/02/una-chica-con-klass-e-vengan-jugar-con.html' title='Una chica con Klass-e / Vengan a jugar con nosotros'/><author><name>LHernandez</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01895361065380191158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20761591.post-113915899557817269</id><published>2006-02-05T10:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T00:47:03.926-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The powerful Russian Team</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;One year after I retired, I became licensed by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pentathlon.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://www.pentathlon.org/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (event: Fencing - Epee), later I obtained my license by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fie.ch/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://www.fie.ch/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;. Since 1998, I am one of the few Mexican Referees who can participate in Pan-American Games, World Championships and the Olympic Games; I have only refereed in World Championships though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the outstanding memories I have is from the Sydney Olympics Qualifiers in the early spring of 2000. Almost 200 pentathletes from 60 countries were gathered in the Mexican Military College to obtain a place in their national teams for the Summer Games. Only the first 3 (men and women) would qualify.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I forget, I want to make a short comment. Usually the discipline and charisma among the pentathletes worldwide is very similar. Most of the pentas, belong to the Army or Navy... always.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same faces and friends I had met long time ago. The noisy Italians, the friendship of the Swedish, the discipline of the Hungarians, and the Russian Team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Russian teams have always been identified (among some other things) by their competitive philosophy. The team is formed by 3 (men and women). They always have a late 30´s gal (the experienced), the mid-20´s girl (the best ranked in the world) and the youngest (between 15 and 18 years old). Natalia SAVOROVA (the youngest and 15 years old) is starring this tale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the Fencing competition, all the fencers (Pentas, yet I’ll call them fencers) are placed in groups of 32 fencers, then each athlete fences against the other 31 (all-around) for a match which lasts 1.0 minutes. If the stopwatch runs out of time, but fencers lose the bout. So essentially the dynamic of the competition is the following: you know to which piste you should go, you fence one minute, you go against the next opponent, with a few seconds to rest, fence again and so on. It’s been calculated that the Fencing Competition lasts around 3 hours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Savorova who is the sweetest girls I had met in my fencing years did not speak a single word in English. So every time I asked her to fence (On guard !, Prêt ? Allez !!!), she used to say "yes" blinking her blue-eyes and sharing a smile with you. Savorova lost two consecutives bouts, against MALM (Sweden) and DENICHERT (Swiss), she wall called to go to the next piste. At the same time, the Russian Coach (mid-50’s) approaches Savorova and he begins to shout at her for about 1 minute. Savorova sat on the piste and agreed everything her coach was saying (yelling) to her. The next two bouts were not better than the former ones, Savorova lost against KEISER (Germany) and DELAIGNE (France). During the transition to the next piste. Before Savorova disconnects herself from the reel (and the scoring machine), the Russian Coach jumps onto the piste, HOLDS Savorova from the neck and slaps her on the face, not once, not twice but thrice !!!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Savorova, sat on the piste and began to cry. All the referees were shocked when we saw that !!!; I was going to approach her/him when Martin BENITEZ (my friend and former coach) grabs my arm and tells me: "Leo, DO NOT INTERFERE, that’s the way they solve their problems.” After a rest of 10 minutes, the competition continues, Savorova began to win bout after bout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few rounds later I had a word with a friend who was member of the USSR Team, since 1993 she lives in the States. Between joke and joke I asked her: “What was the Russian Coach shouting to Savorova ?”. She answers… “Hard to say… basically he was saying, we did not want to lose his coaching job, due to Savorova´s incompetence”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The powerful Russian Team, a team I will never forget…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/Leo24.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/Leo24.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Picture: Leo Hernandez refereeing the match between Italy against Poland. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20761591-113915899557817269?l=4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/feeds/113915899557817269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20761591&amp;postID=113915899557817269&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113915899557817269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113915899557817269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/2006/02/powerful-russian-team.html' title='The powerful Russian Team'/><author><name>LHernandez</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01895361065380191158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20761591.post-113863754855409706</id><published>2006-01-30T10:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-30T11:12:28.656-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Torneo London Heroes 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Bueno, les cuento que este fin de semana fui invitado por mi club (El Club de Esgrima de la U de Toronto), como coach en el torneo abierto London Heroes en London, Ontario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;London Heroes es uno de los pocos torneos calificatorios para el Circuito Canadiense. Aqui se pueden encontrar tiradores de varias nacionalidades y se pide que los esgrimistas, posean un Canadian Fencing Passport para poder competir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El torneo fue corto, menos de 50 esgrimistas en cada arma, pero todos ellos de un nivel razonable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De este torneo hay dos cosas que quiero mencionar esta semana. La primera tiene que ver con la disciplina deportiva que un esgrimista debe tener durante las compentecias; y la segunda (manana) sera platicar de mi amiga Cath.Migliore, estudiante de la U de Toronto, y sablista colocada en los primeros lugares del ranking canadiense. Que tiene de especial Cath, bueno... para elevar su nivel competitivo, NO es nada raro verla competir en dos competencias de sable el mismo dia. La competencia de mujeres individual (la cual casi siempre gana), y la competencia de hombres individual... donde al menos llega a la tabla de 8. Y creanme que los hace sudar, para derrotarle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durante el Torneo, tuve la oportunidad de saludar a mi amigo Colombiano Eduardo Silva. Estudiante de pre-grado en la Ontario Western Univeristy en la misma ciudad de London. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Es grato platicar de vez en cuando con algun hispano quien comprte el gusto por los sablazos. Eduardo ha ganado medallas anteriormente en este mismo torneo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/EduardoSilva.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/EduardoSilva.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Llevaba un buen paso, ya que despues de los grupos calificatorios, Eduardo se clasifico en la lucha por la medallas en lugar 4 de 20. Pero el sabado no seria un buen dia para Eduardo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durante su primer asalto de eliminiacion directa (contra un sablista de mucho menos nivel tecnico que el), Eduardo estaba cerca de ganar el asalto. Llegando a esta 14 -7 a favor. El juez quien presidia su asalto, COMETIO dos claros errores de apreciacion y otorgo los ataques al contrincante (14-9). Eduardo en una franca expresion de frustracion, se quita la careta, la deja caer y antes de tocar el piso, patea la careta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En ese momento, el juez se acerca a la mesa donde se coloca el marcador electronico y le muestra una tarjeta negra. Lo cual indicaba que Eduardo era expulsado de la competencia por actitud antideportiva, quedando automaticamente en lugar 20 de 20 tiradores, con la nota DSQ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lastima esas son las actitudes que NO se deben permitir en ningun deporte. La actitud de Eduarto, que despues platique con el, fue exacta a Iris Zimmermann de USA, cuando en el asalto por la medalla de bronze en Sydney 2000, patea la careta al estar 44-41 (a favor) contra el equipo de florete femenino Aleman. En aquel dia, Iris Zimmermann, Felicia Zimmermann y Ann Marsh de USA, fueron expulsadas de la competencia, regalando la medalla olimpica de bronce al equipo Aleman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20761591-113863754855409706?l=4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/feeds/113863754855409706/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20761591&amp;postID=113863754855409706&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113863754855409706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113863754855409706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/2006/01/torneo-london-heroes-2006.html' title='Torneo London Heroes 2006'/><author><name>LHernandez</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01895361065380191158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20761591.post-113768661176215803</id><published>2006-01-19T10:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T11:04:53.836-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fencing - A sport who anyone can enjoy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/WheelChair01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/WheelChair01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I would like to comment about two friends I met during my HP (High-Performance) fencing period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will never forget my friend Rosario, member of the Mexico City Fencing Club (Asociacion de Esgrima del DF). Rosario is a foilist who is &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;deaf. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Not a big issue for her, she only needed her coach to be at the end of te piste, facing her, who will show her when to begin and stop fencing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time, how can I forget Raul (now member of the staff of the Mexican Fencing Federation), who unfortunately lost his left arm when he was a child. I wil never forget the couple of times Raul and I were members of the same team during some National Competitions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Rosario and Raul are examples of how a tiny difference does not make them lesser.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/WheelChair02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/WheelChair02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Olympic Games, and the Fencing World Championships, the events for handicapped fencers have been held since 1980.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The physical condition does not affect... as always in fencing the most important thing is to enjoy this sport.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/WheelChair03.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;On Guard..... Prets ? Allez !!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20761591-113768661176215803?l=4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/feeds/113768661176215803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20761591&amp;postID=113768661176215803&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113768661176215803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113768661176215803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/2006/01/fencing-sport-who-anyone-can-enjoy.html' title='Fencing - A sport who anyone can enjoy'/><author><name>LHernandez</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01895361065380191158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20761591.post-113747061482257949</id><published>2006-01-16T22:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-17T10:36:19.603-05:00</updated><title type='text'>... La Señora Pilar Roldán (Pilarica) ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Desde ya hace varios ciclos Olímpicos, las mujeres han sido quien sacan deportivamente la cara por México. Algunas de cunas humildes y otras de familias acomodadas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Nadie dentro de la esgrima mundial puede olvidar a Pilarica, quien mantuvo una larga carrera deportiva activa. Desde sus inicios siendo todavía una niña, cuando ganó se convirtió la primera mujer mexicana en ganar una medalla olímpica, hasta casi a los 48 años cuando aún competía en los Juegos Panamericaons de Indianapolis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Yo, ya no tuve el placer de ver "tirar" a Pilarica, pero siempre estará presente dentro de la familai esgrimistica mexicana el nombre de la Señora.... Pilar Roldán.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deporte.org.mx/altacompetencia/med_olimpicos/proldan/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://www.deporte.org.mx/altacompetencia/med_olimpicos/proldan/index.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/PRoldan%20Chicago%2059.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/PRoldan%20Chicago%2059.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Pilarica", depues de ganar la Medalla de Oro para Mexico en los Juegos Panamericanos de Chicago en 1959 (tenia 16 a&amp;os).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;... Ha llegado la hora. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Kerstin Palme espera ya al pie de la pista.Dos esbeltos cuerpos femeninos, de blanco uniforme vestidos, se encuentran frente a frente. Sus movimientos son vertiginosos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pilar:- Con un rapidísimo desplazamiento, ella se anotó el primer toque. Pero me serené y después hice mía la ventaja, con dos toques consecutivos. Las acciones se tornaron muy parejas y de repente, Palme logró el empate. La gente gritaba en las gradas. Y pese a que una está totalmente concentrada en el combate, no deja de percibir el ruido, el aliento. Yo sentía que no podía defraudar a aquellos miles de compatriotas presentes en el escenario. Habían pasado casi cinco minutos hasta que, por fin, logré el toque de la victoria.Un rugido saludó la caída de la europea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pilar supuso que había conquistado sólo la medalla de bronce.El público no sabía, a ciencia cierta, el lugar que finalmente ocuparía la esgrimista mexicana. Hasta que, entre el clamor general, en el tablero electrónico apareció el resultado final: Para la jovencita Novikova la medalla de oro, con cuatro victorias, una derrota, 19 toques a favor y 11 en contra. Pilar y la húngara Rejto, campeona olímpica en Tokio, cuatro años antes, empataron con 3 victorias y dos derrotas. Pero la medalla de plata fue para la mexicana por su mejor diferencia entre toques dados y recibidos: 17-14 contra 14-16.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Un estallido de felicidad cimbró al escenario.Abrazos. Risas. Gritos. Era apenas para el país, la segunda medalla obtenida en la justa. Era Pilar, la primera mujer mexicana ganadora de una medalla olímpica.Y era también, la primera esgrimista de América -y única, hasta el momento- que subiría al podio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pilar:- Cuando dieron a conocer la puntuación y el orden de las medallas, sentí una alegría indescriptible. Después de recibir las felicitaciones de mi entrenador, fui a la tribuna a ver a mi esposo, a mi padre y a Edgar, quienes estaban ahí, felices, acompañados por muchos amigos del Junior Club, los que no sabían de esgrima pero que me habían alentado durante toda la noche... Por fin había fructificado mi esfuerzo. La medalla llegaba a mí en el momento justo: después de 14 años de intensa práctica y de luchar no sólo contra mis rivales sino contra la obstinación de algunos dirigentes, y ya siendo una mujer de casi 29 años, casada y madre de dos hijos...Se escucharon las fanfarrias.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Llegó el instante supremo de la premiación.Pilar subió al podio. Su rostro, desencajado y todavía sudoroso, enmarcó una extraña sonrisa en la que se entremezclaban la satisfacción y el orgullo y en la que se adivinaba, sí, un cierto dejo de ironía.Pilar:-Así fue. Dentro de esa gran emoción que amenazaba con destrozarme, no podía olvidar aquellas palabras del general Clark Flores ni la sentencia de David Romero Vargas...Han pasado veintidós años desde esa epopeya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pilar Roldán sonríe evocadora al recordar:. - Esa medalla culminó un largo trabajo de 14 años. Toda una vida deportiva. Los esfuerzos y los sacrificios se vieron recompensados. Porque no fue fácil ser esposa, madre y deportista al mismo tiempo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ella no regresó a la Villa Olímpica. Ya la justa había terminado. La deportista cedía el paso al ama de casa. Un sencillo brindis en su hogar, rodeada de familiares y algunos amigos selló la noche triunfal Al día siguiente, nuevas experiencias le harían sonreir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;El mundo de la esgrima reclamó la presencia de Pilar al salir Romero Vargas de la federación, ella fue elegida presidenta del Comité Ejecutivo. Pero entonces decidió probarse a sí misma: no volvería sólo como dirigente, sino como competidora. Reapareció como floretista, recientemente se ha especializado en espada.Explica Pilar:- Los años pasan y sin duda ahora es más difícil obtener triunfos, pero mi presencia en el deporte obedece a que quiero motivar a las jóvenes generaciones de esgrimistas. Las muchachas de hoy saben que tienen que entrenar aún más que yo para ganarme. Y esto representa un reto. Para ellas y para mí.Todavía en agosto de 1987, Pilar y Lourdes Roldán formaron parte del equipo mexicano que obtuvo medalla de bronce en la prueba de florete, dentro de los Juegos Panamericanos que se realizaron en Indianápolis. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pilar finalizó en noveno lugar en espada individual. En ese mismo año, ocupó el quinto sitio en el campeonato Centroamericano y del Caribe de esgrima, que se disputó en Guatemala. Lourdes fue submonarca de esa prueba.Y en 1988, Pilar conquistó el primer sitio del Centroamericano y del Caribe efectuado en México y se situó en segundo lugar en el torneo internacional de Río de Janeiro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Incansable esta dama que conserva la esbeltez y la elegancia de aquellos años.Mujer de finos modales y charla cordial. Concluyó su mandato al frente de la federación, pero ahora funge como presidenta de la Confederación Panamericana de Esgrima y también ocupa la secretaría de la Asociación Mexicana de Medallistas Olímpicos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Pilar Roldán, la amable dama seria del deporte:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;- Para mí el deporte ha sido siempre un placer, una total diversión. Para practicarlo, conté primero con el apoyo de mis padres y posteriormente, con el de mi esposo y el de mis tres hijos, con quienes he formado una linda familia. Para todo eso sirvió el deporte: me educó, me formó, me permitió realizarme como mujer... Me permitió representar a mi país en incontables certámenes. Y me permitió, finalmente, sentirme muy orgullosamente mexicana en cada uno de ellos...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20761591-113747061482257949?l=4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/feeds/113747061482257949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20761591&amp;postID=113747061482257949&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113747061482257949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113747061482257949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/2006/01/la-seora-pilar-roldn-pilarica.html' title='... La Señora Pilar Roldán (Pilarica) ...'/><author><name>LHernandez</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01895361065380191158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20761591.post-113710028202736119</id><published>2006-01-12T15:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-17T09:50:24.940-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fencing's most terrible moment.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/CRW_0848.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/200/CRW_0848.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Thank you for all your comments. One of my purposes is to disclose the knowledge of fencing in Mexico and Canada, that's the reason why I will keep switching languages through the posts. Hopefully my Canadian friends will someday learn Spanish and the hence I will only have to write in our lovely language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/CRW_0849.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/200/CRW_0849.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Today I would like to discuss the most important concept in fencing. I have always taught the young fencers that fencing is a very safe sport, if you practice it wearing the appropiate equipment and always having in mind that this is a sport, not a fight. You are accountable for you safety and for the safety of your opponent, who is a&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; friend&lt;/span&gt; is not your enemy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/CRW_0850.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="145" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/200/CRW_0850.0.jpg" width="200" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Maybe the tough leson to learn is what happened to the Russian fencer Wladimir Smirnov, the following is his history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;by Colin Chock&lt;br /&gt;(originally published in "Sports Hawaii", August, 1998 published by Ron Williams of Ron/Glo &amp;amp; Associates, P.O. Box 1521, Pearl City, Hawaii 96782, 808/486-0163.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;The first world-class fencing tournament I saw in person was the '84 Olympics in LA. In my favorite weapon, Foil, I watched from the third row as Mauro Numa of Italy beat Mathias Behr (a tall man from West Germany) in the gold-medal match. Because the Salle Auriol Fencing Club had contributed one fourth of the American fencing team, I decided to move to Portland, Oregon, to join them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;The president of Salle Auriol at that time (and possibly to this day) was Robert Marx, older brother of the great foilist Michael Marx. Robert, an epeeist, won the National Epee Title in '85.&lt;br /&gt;One evening at the Pizza Caboose, where the club meets after practice, Robert told me the following story, which, I must warn you, is not for the faint of heart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Years before the '84 Olympics, Robert was at the World Fencing Championships when they were held in Rome. Russian Vladimir Smirnov was the defending World Foil Champion and considered by many to be the world's best and most creative fencer - in any weapon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;In those days safety standards weren't as high as they are now. Thus, in a bout with his friend, the above-mentioned Mathias Behr, Smirnov was using a mask that was too old. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;I should say here that a foil is three feet long and flexible, but when it eventually breaks, the spike left in the fencer's hand is one-and-a-half feet long and rigid. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Behr, in one particularly ill-fated thrust, broke his foil on Smirnov's torso and, because he was moving too fast to stop, inadvertently shoved his broken foil through Smirnov's mask, the front of Smirnov's skull, and completely through Smirnov's brain. Behr quickly jerked his weapon out of Smirnov's head, allowing Smirnov, his arm moving on reflex only, to pull his mask off. While blood and brain fluid spilled out of the hole in the Russian's forehead, Behr stared in horror into the eyes of the man he had just killed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Then the world's greatest fencer collapsed, never to rise again.&lt;br /&gt;A few minutes later, Robert Marx, ignorant of what had just happened, walked into the arena. Imagine that. "Hey, what's up, guys? Why the long faces?"&lt;br /&gt;This may sound ridiculous at this point, but fencing is a very safe sport. Freak accidents like this happen very rarely. What are the odds that one of those rare accidents would happen to the World Champion at the World Championships? I have no idea.&lt;br /&gt;Not surprisingly, this is not a story that most fencers find appropriate to tell prospective fencers. So why am I telling you?&lt;br /&gt;First, because I want to discourage everyone from ever using old masks, or from skimping on safety in any way. And second, because the story of Smirnov's death is so spectacular and ironic that it needs to be told, and better you hear it from me. Fencing's most terrible story is the equivalent of Michael Jordan doing a slam-dunk in the NBA finals and having the backboard collapse on him, killing him instantly.&lt;br /&gt;Because of Smirnov's death, the International Fencing Federation raised its safety standards. Among other things, never again would a fencer in a world-class competition be allowed to fence in a mask that was too weak. Fencers are now required to submit their masks to a strength test. If a mask fails, it is destroyed on the spot.&lt;br /&gt;As for Mathias Behr, he took a hiatus from fencing but came back strong and, as I have mentioned, eventually won silver in the Olympics.&lt;br /&gt;By '89 Behr was a referee. He refereed at the '89 World Championships in Denver, where I was his scorekeeper for a short time. After the tournament, Behr shook my hand and said, "Thank you for all your hard work." I thought of the '84 Olympics and wanted to say to him, "Mr. Behr, you remind me that the journey of a gold medallist is not necessarily greater than that of a silver medallist."&lt;br /&gt;But all I managed was, "You're welcome."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mathias Behr, has been the German National Coach in Foil, since 1990. I met him in a Class A competition in Lisbon, in 1996.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The pictures I am sharing with you today are about a Fencing lesson we have to children of the employees of WET Automotive Systems (my former employer) in Windsor, Ontario. Of course we had to use foam epees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20761591-113710028202736119?l=4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/feeds/113710028202736119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20761591&amp;postID=113710028202736119&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113710028202736119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113710028202736119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/2006/01/fencings-most-terrible-moment.html' title='Fencing&apos;s most terrible moment.'/><author><name>LHernandez</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01895361065380191158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20761591.post-113687331211577088</id><published>2006-01-10T00:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-16T14:32:58.583-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Un poquito de historia ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/Fencing%2001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/Fencing%2001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La esgrima es uno de los deportes mas viejos de los que se tiene historia escrita. Se han encontrado grabados que datan 1200 AC, en Egipto donde se muestran "tiradores" utilizando mascaras protectoras combatiendo con bastones, espectadores viendoles y hasta jueces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stud.rma.ac.be/fencing/history.htm"&gt;http://www.stud.rma.ac.be/fencing/history.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Su origen moderno y reglamentado es el entrenamiento para los duelos a muerte. De estos entrenamientos surgio el "rappier" (lo que ahora se conoce como florete), posteriormente la espada y por ultimo el sable..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En la actualidad es un deporte (uno de las 4 unicas disciplinas) que ha integrado los programas de todos los Juegos Olimpicos de Verano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otorga 12 medallas de Oro, utiliza la tecnologia electronica mas avanzada para su medicion... y cuando es practicado correctamente... es un deporte tan seguro como jugar al golf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/Fencing%2003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/Fencing%2003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se trata de un deporte de caballeros (o damas); donde en menos de 3 minutos, se debe encontrar y explotar la deficiencia tecnica / psicologica / estrategica del adversario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aunque es un deporte de origen y de mayor participacion europea, la Sra. Pilar Roldan dio a Mexico (1968) la primera medalla olimpica en esgrima (hasta ese entonces) a un atleta de origen distinto al europeo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/1600/wc2002015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 480px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 324px" height="268" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/400/wc2002015.jpg" width="330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aqui les dejo fotos de las tres eventos olimpicos de la esgrima. El florete, la Espada y el Sable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 637px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 471px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="242" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4743/2091/320/Fencing%2002.jpg" width="288" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20761591-113687331211577088?l=4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/feeds/113687331211577088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20761591&amp;postID=113687331211577088&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113687331211577088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20761591/posts/default/113687331211577088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://4dloveofthegame.blogspot.com/2006/01/un-poquito-de-historia.html' title='Un poquito de historia ...'/><author><name>LHernandez</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01895361065380191158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry></feed>
