Fencing: Foiled again!; Stars like Madonna and Catherine Zeta Jones have given the sport of fencing it's glamorous edge. Stephen Johnson decided to get in with the in crowd at a fencing club.(Features)

From: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: December 7, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Stephen Johnson

FENCING is hot. Fencing is cool. Fencing is very, very sexy. And I'm not talking about selling dodgy DVDs off the back of a lorry.

Where Hollywood Welsh lead, Madonna follows.

Catherine Zeta Jones and Anthony Hopkins cut a dash with the flashing blades in the movie smash Mask Of Zorro, but with the release of the new Bond movie, Die Another Day, everyone wants totry a bit of thrust and parry.

And move over old sch...

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