2025 🇬🇪【世界劍擊錦標賽 格魯吉亞】女佩 團體「SEMI FINALS」HUNGARY 🇭🇺 VS 🇫🇷 FRANCE

There we get the shot from the getting ready. We'll get the athlete introductions and if he's showing the road. Well, in men's in men's epi, the top two seeds made it through. Alright, out they come. His men on men on Brene. Uh Apetit. Is she taking a post a post Paris. Is it powder powder or is it a permanent powder? Yeah. Don't know. Okay. First up, team from Hungary. Liza Pustai, Luca Such, Sugar Katinka, Batai, and in reserve, Renata Katona. For France, Tore Toscan, Sarah Balzer, European champion, Sarah Nucha, and in reserve, Faustine Clapier. Our uh officiating crew, Reza Pekarara of Iran, and Abdus Samit Arslan of Turkey. Jeff, take it away. Number one France against number four Hungary. Hungary has won the last two world titles in the women's saber team event. It could be the second country to win three successful world titles. France has a record thirteen medals in this event. Three golds, six silvers, four bronze. They won their last title 2018. And the French has reached the final in each of the last four world championships. That's how they got there. We're going to start off with Nucha and Batai. Nucha took sixth in the individual. She's third ranked in the world. She's twenty-five. Batai took eleventh. She's seventh ranked in twenty- two. Coming out of the European championships, Nucha was considered one of the hottest fencers but she had a bit of a rough go in the individual. Look for her to come out strong here. We are signed to start us off. Just doing a little mechanical housekeeping to get us started here. David Blake, our mechanical guru slash expert in the United States. And whereas the FA team matches take all of an hour in most cases, the saber team matches can be over in rapid fashion in half of that time. We are ready to go. Nucha on the board to beat Attack. On the preparation. The attack first, it looked like it missed. But the referee said attack is good, it's being challenged. Let's see if it hit. It missed. It looked like it missed. Like didn't go on on the first action. Stand corrected. Parry and riposte. Attack in preparation, attack, a parry riposte. We've seen it all from Nucha and it's time to see something from Batai. Still the attack from the right, says the referee. Good start for Nucha. Next up, Pushtai and Balzer. Pushtai, not so great in individual, 39th. She's ranked 36th, she's 24. Balzer, 7th in the individual. She's 21th ranked and she's 30 years old. And she was the silver medalist last year in Paris. Right out of the gate. Same as Nucha. They must have a game plan, very aggressive. Attack from the left. You can see Pushtai got the jump there. Here comes Balzer. Gets the light. Still her attack, her arm is moving forward, threatening the opponent's valid target, that lame, the electric jacket. This is classic second intention. Balzer comes barreling forward, waiting for Pushtai to attack into the parry and the riposte. There's an attack from Pushtai. Watch her arm, she's starting. This is the parry and the riposte from Pushtai. Takes the blade and the riposte. Referee's going to take a look at this one. It's the attack from the right. Big beat attack by Pushtai. Pushing, pushing, finally drawing up. Balzer's attack takes the blade. There's the parry and there's the riposte to the back. Counter riposte from Pushtai, looks like that's what it is. Once Balzer short there, now Pushtai makes her new move and it's good. And that hurt in more ways than one because you could see Balzer was holding her back. Balzer again tried that slow attack, trying to draw up Pushtai's counterattack, which she did. However, she didn't hit and Pushtai did. Okay. Good job by Pushtai after getting hit in the first one. She hung in there and kept it close. Next up is Tori, who took 8th in the individual. She's 17th world ranked. She's 21. Egan Such, she's 15th in the world and she's 22. She took 18th in the individual. Attack from the left. Tori's floating forward with her feet, but her arm is still back. Attack from the left. Boom with the attack. Attack to go, she attacked from the left. And Luka Such has come off the bench and now she's coming to the first bout that she's fencing and she's exploded here. Another one and Tori has no answer for these powerful attacks by Such. Gotta get the legs moving there. She's flat-footed. Well, she tried, but Such was waiting. Beautiful riposte. Attack to go is challenged by Tori. Let's see. Already on a 6-0 run. Will it be 7? The reason she would get this, I believe, is because Tori looked for the blade after Such stopped. She looked for the blade. She had a moment where Such had stopped, but then she looked for the blade, Tori, and Such retook the attack. Okay, there's one on the riposte. Okay, that's the first time Tori's been able to go over the middle of a piece to Such's side. Finds the blade, makes the riposte. She's going in a slower speed. Such is going in warp speed. Too fast. In saber, it's all about the foot speed. One fencer had it, the other one didn't. That's an 8-2 run. Big one for Such. Next up is Pushtai and Nucha. Nucha went 5-1 against Batai and Pushtai 6-5 against Balzer. Very serious game face there. Chance of Ale Nucha. Let's see if she can get France back into it here. Acknowledged attack from the left. We heard a lot of that in the last leg. And the riposte. Attack, parry, and riposte. Counterattack. Everything's working here for Pushtai in this leg. It's a very energized Hungarian team box. Pushtai had her arm back there, so the attack went to the right. Arms back. There's a slightly more concerned French team box. Quite a control. There's a nice attack by Nucha. Needs to do that again. She tried to do it again, but it was a closer distance and her arm was back. Riposte! So a great leg by Lisa Pushtai. A little deflating. You can see one team has a lot of energy and the other team is sort of just standing around waiting for something to happen. And Toure is back in. And it wasn't happening for her in the third leg against Such. It was 8-2 against her. So let's see if she can compose herself and get something going here. There's the attack. Right in the middle. Whoa! Nice attack by Butai. Right back at Toure. After she got hit on Toure's attack, she came right back. Toure in stages. Pushing and scoring. So Butai, the last two times Toure's been able to attack, she got hit. So I look for her to go forward here. Both times she went back, she got hit pretty easily. Butai tried to attack into preparation. The referee says it's still the attack from the right. Butai is challenging it. One video review per leg. Let's take a look. As long as the fencer's arm is continually threatening the opponent's target, it's going to be the attack. And that call is maintained. OK. Toure, after that really rough 8-2 leg against her, going in a much better direction here. Butai with a big attack pushing all the way down the piece. It's parried and the riposte. Attack from the right, parry, riposte. Sweet touch by Butai. Now she takes over. It's a prise de fer from Toure. She took the blade as Butai was coming forward. Watch. That's where she took the blade. Prise de fer means taking of the blade. Still the attack. Very effective for Butai. Good job by Toure. She came back from the rough leg but she wasn't able to chip away at anything. Just stayed level. 5-5. And that brings up Such against Balzer. Balzer went 5-6 against Pushtai and we all remember Such went 8-2 against Toure. Can she build on that? Such ready to jump out of the gate. She went to test the weapon while Balzer was still in her two meter zone. She's ready to go. Attack missed. Balzer didn't do anything really special to get that. Just hit on the counter attack. There's Such's attack. That's the attack from Balzer pushing. Such was in big trouble down there. Here comes the attack. Gets through. Such is quicker on this mark and watch her arm start. Yes! Pretty simple to see there. Attack from the right. And another! Hungary had four medals out of the five World Cups. They had a gold, two silvers, and a bronze. France won the last two World Cups and they also had a silver and a bronze. There's Pushtai's attack from the left. Let's take a look. They're going to review it. Balzer using her one challenge here. As I said, both of the fencers prepared and stopped and then Such was the one who got off the mark quicker. Attack from the right. There's a lot of actions in the box there. Right there. Four meter zone between the on-guard lines. So both fencers have used their challenges. Neither one has one left. Neither one successful when they used it. That's the attack and Balzer has reduced the six-point deficit to two. And another from Balzer and Such has been so successful in the attack. Balzer's not allowing her to get going. Ref's going to look at this one. Pecoraro. Balzer thinks it's hers. Such thinks it's hers. But it only matters who Pecoraro thinks. Here's the referee and she started first. These are close. A few catcalls from the stands. Yep, it happens here too. Here comes Pushtai. Here comes Such. And she closes it out. Nice job by Sarah Balzer. Cuts the six-point deficit into three with an 8-5 leg. So Such has been in a couple of Donnybrooks there. 8-2 for her and 5-8 against her. Up next Pushtai and Tourie. And Tourie she was the beneficiary of that 8-2 drubbing by Such but she fenced much better in the fifth leg going 5-5 with Patai. Let's see if she can build on that. Pushtai was 5-2 over Nucha and 6-5 over Balzer. She's fencing really well. Preparation it's the attack. Contrasting styles Pushtai very quick on her feet Tourie more methodical. That was quick. Big reach again. Tall. Still the attack from the right. You see that Pushtai hit first you can see she hits right there but the arm is still going forward weapon threatening the target and the referee is going to give that attack from the right. Tourie with a nice attack in stages pushing once pushing twice finally Pushtai is out of room and she got pushed and Pushtai pushes back with her own attack. It's being challenged but that's her attack in my opinion but they're taking a long long look at it the longer the look this could get reversed this might very well get reversed we'll see they're continuing to look at it so it looked at first blush to me attack from the left that's the way it was called she goes yeah that was mine wasn't it here comes the ref Arslan he's changed the call to simultaneous neither one gets it and Fensers are generally okay with that they'd rather throw it out nobody gets it than maybe the wrong person gets it very effective on the attack is Tauri pushing hopping and scoring gonna take a look at this one first both Fensers pleading their case that it was theirs attack from the left attack is nowhere parried a little more concern now on the team what a nice touch by Tauri just hopping and floating and flying and finally drawing out the attack and making the riposte takes the blade makes the riposte Arslan thinks maybe the push type could have pulled her arm back at the very last second she did fist pump there within one and Tauri has tied the score complete change of momentum here and the attack to take the lead amazing effort there by Toscana Tauri she was tremendous effort there great effort and has changed the whole tenor of this match with an 8-4 you gotta give her credit she was blown off the piece by Such in the third leg did really well 5-5 with the tie and now she's come back to give her team the lead great effort this brings us to our eighth next to last and penultimate leg Such and Nucha attack from the right and you look at the two team boxes and it has changed one team was down in the dumps and now they're on top of the world and Hungary at one point was smiles and laughter and this looks a concern right now the tackle fair says the ref beat attack watch the beat there's the beat there's the attack attack is no Nucha using her length scores in the counter attack scored in the counter and Drew Such short same thing two in a row with the concern right there on the Hungarian box Nucha once you hit there's a period of time then when the when the machine would block out the opponent from hitting that seems to be what happened there another attack by Nucha looks like she started back from the right this time she gets the light on to Such a little bit closer takes the blade Nucha again tried the counter attack she's been successful twice not that time Oh! what a nice touch by Such faint attack Nucha got nailed on that one nice attack by Such Nucha went to the well for the fourth time she got the first two she got hit on the next two with the counter attack Such was able to get just a little bit closer in the last two she changed the distance just enough to get the light on and Nucha closes it out that was a 5-5 that will bring us to the ninth and final leg first one to 45 will win and be competing for the world championship later on and it's Batai and Balzer here's the Olympic silver medalist Balzer number one France against number four Hungary the card to Balzer starting before the referee said LA quick off the mark again right in the middle of the piece quick off the mark again same action by Balzer Batai is either going to have to pull distance and retreat draws Balzer short because she's getting beaten to the punch three in a row brings France two away still the attack Sarah Balzer on fire here four nothing run one away that's attack from the left first time Batai has been able to beat Balzer to the punch let alone put a light on that's a red card there it is if you jump the gun can't move you can't flinch until the referee says LA we'll go Paris repose for Balzer and she takes France into the gold medal match for a chance to win the world championship later on great job by her but I'm going to give the MVP to Tori who came back from that A2 drubbing to come back to A4 against Pushta she changed the match around well done France big smile on the face of Sarah Balzer I got to tell you Jeff I spoke to Matt Thomas Cock and I said was that six foot hits and he smiled and he said yes but I don't know how it happened well you know when you train for years and years over and over yes it becomes like muscle memory you just do it exactly you know he just smiled and said yeah but I don't know how it happened that was exciting it's very exciting when a fencer like in the case of Tori had such a rough go of it that can snowball and go in the other direction yeah and for her to come back like that doesn't always happen very exciting for her well Tuscan Tori has been a really nice addition to the French team and it's