South Bend Tribune Articles on the World Championships

  • Tourney's end brings relief
    (2000/04/26)
    SOUTH BEND -- With the Junior/Cadet World Fencing Championships coming to a close Tuesday night, members of the event's local organizing committee can finally breathe a large sigh of relief.

  • American efforts prove sport on the rise
    (2000/04/25)
    SOUTH BEND -- When Michael Massik says he doesn't show much emotion, you believe him.

  • Farber at ease handling daily 'challenges'
    (2000/04/24)
    SOUTH BEND -- Rule number one for Jochen Farber: Don't ever let the word "problem" creep into conversation.

  • More workers surfing Net on company time
    (2000/04/24)
    While perusing Cnn.com late last week, I ran across a new study that reports how one in three corporate workers spend 25 minutes or more each day using the Internet for personal reasons. Much of that time is spent shopping.

  • Pencil it in
    (2000/04/24)
    Happy Dyngus Day. Grab your favorite person and head out for a polka. Eat a hard-boiled egg and have a diet soda. You can't ask for anything better.

  • Zimmerman wins for U.S.
    (2000/04/23)
    SOUTH BEND -- Iris Zimmermann has given the United States reason to hope -- reason to hope for an Olympic medal later this year in Sydney.

  • Fencer from Iran enters competition
    (2000/04/23)
    SOUTH BEND -- It turns out the Iranian team ended up being represented at the Junior/Cadet World Fencing Championships after all.

  • Elian drama evokes shock, anger, hope
    (2000/04/23)
    When Liz Conner was a teen-ager in 1963 in Cuba, she remembers how Castro's government used machine guns to seize control of private businesses.

  • Cuban's view of Elian
    Fencing
    (2000/04/22)
    SOUTH BEND -- At first, the Cuban fencing official didn't want to talk about him.

  • Money dilemma only boosts spirits
    Commentary
    (2000/04/21)
    SOUTH BEND By the time Guatemalan coach Hugo Salas had paid $265 for various team entry fees and another $200 for incidental costs associated with this week's World Junior/Cadet Fencing Championships at the Century Center, only $635 remained in his kitty.

  • Daughter's doings difficult for Dad
    (2000/04/21)
    SOUTH BEND -- If an observer had any trouble figuring out how Mishawaka's Eleanor Leighton was doing Thursday at the Junior/Cadet World Fencing Championships, a quick look at her father, David, would have answered any questions.

  • Area businesses catering to guests
    (2000/04/20)
    SOUTH BEND -- The downtown area has become a scaled down version of the United Nations.

  • Iranians object to U.S. security policy
    (2000/04/20)
    SOUTH BEND -- Subtract by one the number of teams competing in the Junior/Cadet World Fencing Championships.

  • World-class athletes arrive
    (2000/04/19)
    SOUTH BEND In a sport where sensors in the vest and blades of the weapons keep score, the sight of contestants at the Junior/Cadet World Fencing Championships sending e-mail demonstrates how pervasive technology is today.

  • Eleanor Leighton cuts to the chase
    (2000/04/16)
    MISHAWAKA -- How unfortunate for Eleanor Leighton that older brother James had to be standing by this particular evening at the Indiana Fencing Academy.

  • Junior/Cadet World Fencing Championships
    (2000/04/16)
    What: 2000 Junior/Cadet World Fencing Championships, with 700 fencers representing 58 countries.

  • Fencing team from 58 countries to compete
    (2000/04/07)
    SOUTH BEND -- Trying to make a point, Mike DeCicco asked an observer from which country his ancestors came.

  • Sports Briefs
    (2000/03/22)
    FENCING Leighton goes to worlds Eleanor Leighton, 15, of Mishawaka will represent the United States in the Junior/Cadet 2000 World Fencing Championships, April 25-28, at the Century Center in South Bend.

  • Mental game in focus
    Fencing
    (2000/01/16)
    SOUTH BEND -- Deep in the bowels of the Century Center, far from the clanging of the Epee, Foil and Saber, Eleanor Leighton spun a lump of clay around on a pottery wheel and carefully molded it into a pot.