"2023 387 T04 02 M E Individual Doha QAT GP PODIUM LOYOLA BEL vs BOREL FRA"

But speaking of world champions. We've got a really interesting match coming out now in our second semifinal. Because we've got. We've got world number one Yannick Burrell reigning world champion in mensepe. And we've got a guy who won the bronze medal in Cairo at the World Championships last year and has had. He's had a really good year. He's really exciting to watch. He's got so much talent, so much quickness. But I am reminded. Of two years ago in this hall, and there is Hughes Obrey, the head of the French EPA program. In this hall. In this competition. Yannick Burrell was facing. A young fencer that I described in exactly the same way. His name was Ulan Pereira from Spain. Great guy. I've been watching him fence since he was 15 years old at the Cadet and Junior World Championships, where he won a silver medal in 2013. And. Both Pereira and. And Loyola. Both very athletic, both very creative. Have got a lot of speed. They're fun to watch. But in that. In that match against Ulan Pereira, gold medal match. Not a not a semifinal gold medal match. The score was 13 nil. When Pereira scored his first point. It was such. Burrell in situations like this is seemingly unstoppable. And what you see out of? Nessar Loyola and what he's achieved today. And what he achieved in Cairo. You just go this guy is special. He is. He he defeated. Alexis Bayard of. Switzerland in the quarterfinals in the 16 he took out Nicholas, but he still had a great day today. But Burrell is Burrell. He knocked out Kweon. Jung Jin of Korea in the quarterfinals. His teammate Alex Faba. In the 16 and in the 32. I guess it must have been. He had a heck of a match against like a 21 year old. First year senior. From the USA who had absolutely not one ounce of fear. And it was a 1514 match. And Burrell was, you know, lucky to escape, but escape he did. And here he is. And he has no. Emotional attachment to these things. It's his job. He's like a customs officer during the week. And he's the nicest person you'd ever want to meet. But when he's when he's working. So Nessie Loyola. Has got his work cut out for him. He was born in Cuba. His father got a job as the. Had epic coach for. For the Belgian squad. And moved here and now he is. He's become. He's reaching his potential. But Yannick Burrell is reigning world champion Yannick Burrell is. World number one. Mr Loyola has risen to world number 14. He doesn't have to fence in the pools anymore. And there are two sort of foundational principles. Of epic fencing, especially one, of course, is the blatantly obvious is to hit and not be hit. But the other is this. On any given day. In a pay. Anything can happen and anyone can win, and we've seen a lot of that. Here over the past three days. So we're getting a video review here. Now was this a valid hit to the foot? Mihail Pagiev. Has seen what he needs to see. He'll come back and make his call. We've had one. False positive. On foot to the hit to the foot call already, that was in the women's semifinals. But the men's event has just been bedlam. Both in the preliminaries and today. Loyola has got a lot of speed, but you have to be careful how you use it. Nothing, nothing given there. Referee calls him apart. Because if you provoke provoke Burrell, the response is sometimes not what you were looking for. Nicely done there from Loyola. He just keeps moving. Quickly. It's the beat. Keeps going, keeps going until he finds a target. There's a double. There you see Loyola. Picking up the attack. Blocking it out, blocking out again, and Burrell just it's not enough. I don't know. What is the hell buggy up doing? He's collecting the weapon. Did the blade break? Sometimes in. All of that flashing around in and it can be. With all the rapid. Both contact. And trying to find the target, you don't notice that blade is broken. And that's really dangerous. It's a double, but a really good quick response from Nasser Loyola. He goes for hit to the foot. And has the presence of mind to get come back up. And hit. But it's now a three point Burrell lead. Loyola keeps fighting. But sometimes it doesn't matter what you do. He's not. Yannick Burrell is not going to stop. And that will do it for the first period action packed. But when he can see. The goal in front of him. Will be tied those who stand in front of it. Alright, here we go. Our second period. Will we see anything beyond that? Loyola had gone well past. So no hit given. Nicely done from Nasser Loyola. Beat closing the distance rapidly. And not stopping till he hit the target. Referee calls halt. Yellow card for Nasser Loyola. That was nice. That's about the only thing that Loyola can really effectively use consistently against Burrell is just speed. Speed and don't miss. Because if you miss. But this is this is a nice outing here from Loyola. And a one point match. Stepping in with that counter. That that's a that's a wow moment. OK, we're level at 11. How will Yannick Burrell respond to this? Well, first he's going to pick a new weapon. And a look of. Somewhat grim concern from coach Hughes-Obrey. There isn't much that can rattle. Yannick Burrell. And he wanted to walk down the end of the piste and think about things and sort of clear his head. That that took a guts. Be supreme self confidence. In a 1211 match. Semi final match against Yannick Burrell. To pull that off. We're level again. At hand speed. OK, we're going to get passivity call here. Both will see. The yellow card, if it happens again, both will see the red card scores. Got nothing to do with it anymore. The rule is changed. And there's not a second red. It goes straight to black. Now if it goes to black. If someone's in the lead score wise, they advance. If they're not. Then. If they are tied. Then the fencer with the highest seeding for the event. From the beginning of the event, the highest seeded fencer. From the opening of the round of 64, will event. And they're just going to let this run out. And go for another break, and I'll bet Yannick Burrell can't wait. And that's it for the second period. What a match this is. 12 apiece. I have a feeling when we come out of this break, we're going to see. The freight train that is Yannick Burrell. Come at Nasser Loyola, but I tell you what, the way he's responded here and that hit to the foot. When he got down by one when he was down 1211. Oh, and now Hughes Obrey is having a word with the referee. OK, here we go. It's all about this. Is Burrell going to go full freight train on him here? Oh, oh no. Burrell is behind. No, this can't really be happening, can it? Back level. We're only two points away from a win. Who's it going to be? Oh, Nasser Loyola needs one hit to go to the gold medal match. Yannick Burrell, world number one, world champion. Is in a real spot of bother here. A double will do it. Nasser Loyola. 1514 into the gold medal match, defeating world number one and reigning world champion Yannick Burrell. Amazing match and Hughes Obrey is over to talk to him. He's probably saying, would you like to come fence for France? Belgium is so small that we have better feet. What a great, great, great performance. And there is confirmation of the resultant score from Swiss timing. 1514.