Nicholas interviews Oliver Stenhouse - a young pentathlete who recently qualified for the cadet World Championships in South Africa.

Also the podcast will be having a sabbatical - for a few months.

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Axle Ganz is interviewed by Nicholas about his fencing life - from meeting his French coach aged 7, and meeting him again years later at an Olympic Games.

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We chat about the how the podcast got started, firsts, Stag Epee tournament, and goal setting among other topics.

Upcoming competitions, team fencing and Nicholas' dream guest.

A novice fencer, Sarina Singh clearly has the bug. Since her milestone birthday she has decided to ask why not in relation to doing things, and one of those things is fencing.

Nicholas discusses with Karim, the upcoming olympics in Paris previewing the fencing events which are 'HUGE'.

We also chat about fencing in general and Karim's progress through the sport with a cute story about bears, that's right Black Bears!

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In a great interview Nicholas discusses safeguarding with Liz Behnke, Lead Safeguarding Officer with Brititsh Fencing.

Safeguarding concerns BF website via https://www.britishfencing.com/welfare-zone/

And contact 07526 003030 or Liz, Lead Safeguarding Officer, equality@britishfencing.com 077177 40125.

Nicholas Interviews Liz and Lyra Stewart who have fenced around the world, meeting in New York and travelling to clubs far and wide - they give a unique insight into competing in different countries.

Listen for insightful questions and a truly lovely story of meeting across swords!

Nicholas interviews Alfie Smith, foilist for Nottingham University with some interesting stories of uni fencing matches.