If you're missing the TV coverage, or finding it lacking, or just want
to avoid the commercials, you can watch some olympic fencing online.

From the NBC site here:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/fencing/video/index.html

You can find a variety of video links. Some are short clips and
interviews, and some are from previous games. There's 5 hours of Men's
Epee quarterfinals in one streaming video.

Here's some of the available video:

# Women's Individual Foil - Early-round elimination matches (Round of
64 through quarterfinals).
# Women's Individual FoilLIVE - Early-round elimination matches (Round
of 64 through quarterfinals).
# Men's Individual Epee - Men's bronze-medal, gold-medal and
classification matches.
# Men's Individual Epee - Early-round elimination matches (Round of 64
through quarterfinals).
# First American medals come in fencing - Three American fencers swept
women's individual sabre to give the United States its first Beijing
medals.
# US Women's Fencing Sweep - Defending Olympic champion leads a
historic sweep for the United States in women's sabre fencing.
# Top 8 reactions: Women's individual sabre - Watch the best eight
reactions from the women's individual sabre competition on Aug. 9.
# Women's Individual SabreWomen's Individual Sabre - Bronze-medal,
gold-medal and classification bouts.

You need to install Microsoft's "Silverlight" software, but when you
go to the site and try to play any clips it will offer to download the
needed plugins.

--Eric K