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Before that, Kaepernick jersey sales had ranked 33rd for the period going back to the 2016 NFL draft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/17469995/jersey-sales-san-francisco-49ers-qb-colin-kaepernick-soared-protest\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN reports\u003c/a> that Kaepernick now has the best-selling jersey on the 49ers, up from sixth before his protest became public a little over a week ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A source with knowledge of sales numbers confirmed to ESPN that more Kaepernick gear was sold last week on the team site than the past eight months combined,\" the sports network said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaepernick gear has sold briskly ever since he replaced Alex Smith as the Niners' starting signal-caller in 2012. For the most part, Kap-related merchandise has moved regardless of how well or poorly he's played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the NFL Players Association fiscal year from March 1, 2014, to Feb. 28, 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nflpa.com/players/top-50-player-sales-list-q4\" target=\"_blank\">Kaepernick was fourth\u003c/a> in overall gear sales, behind three other quarterbacks: Seattle's Russell Wilson, Denver's Peyton Manning and New England's Tom Brady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those hot sales continued into last year, with Kaepernick initially \u003ca href=\"http://www.49ers.com/news/article-2/Colin-Kaepernick-Ranks-Second-on-NFL-Merchandise-Sales-List/d40b710e-5102-4869-91bd-2b2e02c0132c\" target=\"_blank\">ranked second\u003c/a>, behind Brady, among all NFL players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kap's merchandise has proven popular despite the fact he ranked 20th in \u003ca href=\"http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2014/passing.htm\" target=\"_blank\">passer rating in 2014\u003c/a> -- behind Buffalo's Kyle Orton, who probably ranked in the top 10,000 of NFL sales -- and \u003ca href=\"http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2015/passing.htm\" target=\"_blank\">31st last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Kaepernick's lousy performance the last couple of years takes us back to a time when a player's jersey would be burned because they were bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still unknown: How Kaepernick's protest has affected sales of the \"\u003ca href=\"http://40sandshorties.com/collections/socks/products/pig-cop-black\" target=\"_blank\">police pig socks\u003c/a>\" he was photographed \u003ca href=\"http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016/09/01/san-francisco-49ers-colin-kaepernick-anthem-protest-police-pigs-socks\" target=\"_blank\">wearing during training camp\u003c/a> last month. 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To provide for families and not live in poor circumstances.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaepernick took the practice field Sunday with the 49ers as his stance drew chatter across NFL camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explained his viewpoints to teammates in the morning, some agreeing with his message but not necessarily his method. Some said they know he has offended his countrymen, while others didn't even know what he had done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every guy on this team is entitled to their opinion. We're all grown men,\" linebacker NaVorro Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I agree with what he did, but not in the way he did it,\" wideout Torrey Smith said. \"That's not for me. He has that right. Soldiers have died for his right to do exactly what he did. ... I know he's taken a lot of heat for it. 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People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, he stopped briefly on a side field to talk with UC Berkeley sociologist Harry Edwards and they shared a quick embrace before the quarterback grabbed his helmet and took the field. Edwards helped plan the \"Olympic Project for Human Rights\" before the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, where U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos took the medal podium barefoot and bowed their heads through the anthem, raising gloved fists in a black power protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coach Chip Kelly did not speak to the media Sunday. 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"content": "\u003cp>Eleven-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater dropped a bomb last December when he released a video of an 8-foot man-made wave in what looks like an old ski pond nowhere near an ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our little secret spot about 110 miles from the coast,” says Slater in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the video Slater sees the wave for the first time and freaks out saying, “Oh, my God. No way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/278043241\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slater later surfs down this long skinny lake on what seems like an endless perfect wave. 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In a video on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kswaveco.com/\">Kelly Slater Wave Co. \u003c/a>website, pro surfer \u003ca href=\"http://stabmag.com/style/the-commissioner/\">Kieren Perrow\u003c/a> tries it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coming here was a total unknown,” Perrow says. “It’s so surprising to come and see how powerful the wave is. 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Legendary surfer Michael Willis says he’s interested in riding the wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d go anywhere around the world to catch a wave like that,” says Willis. “It looks sort of like Kirra, a surfing spot in Australia that peals across the beach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://willisbrotherssurfing.com/\">Michael and his brother, Milton, \u003c/a>are sort of legends in the surf world. Michael was a world record holder for successfully catching some of the largest waves ever surfed. He’s concerned that this artificial wave may be too controlled and may lack some of the spiritual factors that surfers feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like wiping out, I like getting caught inside by waves, I like losing my board and having to swim to shore,” says Willis. “Ocean surfing is an extremely difficult art to master.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis also wants to know how this perfect wave works. The wave company says a very precise geometric object is pulled through the water creating the wave. There’s a bunch more science to it, but that info is proprietary. In that same video from earlier, pro surfer \u003ca href=\"http://stephgilmore.com/\">Stephanie Gilmore \u003c/a>surfed the manufactured wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know you dream of this stuff as a kid,” Gillmore says. “Imagine. When you talk about it with your friends, imagine if we had a wave pool that pumped out perfect waves all day long. And to sit here and see it within my lifetime is like the coolest thing ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/165651682\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Ponting, with the \u003ca href=\"http://centerforsurfresearch.org/\">Center for Surf Research \u003c/a>in San Diego, thinks the perfect wave could make Gilmore’s childhood wishes come true in surf parks around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anywhere that has these installations is going to become a tourist destination in and of itself,” Ponting says. “There’s one in the United Arab Emirates that’s right in the middle of the desert and it’s booked out eight months in advance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldsurfleague.com/\">World Surf League\u003c/a>, the governing body for professional surfers, is acquiring the rights to the perfect wave. 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But it didn't take long for her to kick off any rust she might have had when she joined the Mills College team in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first few times I saw her in the water, it was like a machine,\" Virtue said. \"She was go, go, go. It was like she was her full self in the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After just two months of training at Mills, Berkay became the school's first swimmer to qualify for the NCAA Division III national championships and was named to the Scholar All-America Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has spent the last two months training to swim the Catalina Channel, sometimes spending eight or 10 hours straight in the water. 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Berkay bested that time by more than two hours, completing the swim in 12 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm in awe of that fact,\" Berkay said of her record-breaking swim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berkay had friends waiting for her and cheering her on as she sprinted to the end of her swim.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just seemed like a very surreal moment,\" she said. \"I couldn't believe the swim was finished, and I had actually done it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Berkay is not your average Mills College swimmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t usually get athletes of her caliber,\" said Neil Virtue, head coach of \u003ca href=\"http://www.millscyclones.com/sports/wswimdive/index\" target=\"_blank\">the swim team\u003c/a> at the small liberal arts college in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A competitive teenage swimmer in the San Diego area, Berkay earned a scholarship in 2009 to Rider University in New Jersey, which has a Division I swim program. But she wound up coming back to California after just two years. She was out of school -- and out of the pool -- for four years, including an eight-month stretch when she was homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a combination of relationship and financial and job issues and lack of safety net and familial support that led to that,\" Berkay said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/aug/08/formerly-homeless-san-diegan-swims-combat-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with KPBS\u003c/a>. \"It was definitely a growing experience I wouldn't have been able to make it through without the support I received. I'm motivated by that experience to give back to those communities and to show that a person who has been in that position can make a difference.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience has motivated Berkay to attempt something no American has done before. This Wednesday, she will try to swim the Catalina Channel -- 21 miles from Santa Catalina Island to Rancho Palos Verdes -- using only the butterfly stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277386407&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277386407'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she has wanted to do a marathon swim -- an open-water swim of at least 10 kilometers -- since she was 11, but when the opportunity presented itself this summer, she knew it had to be more than just a swim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm going to do this swim, but I really don't want to do it for myself because there's something I can do with this,\" Berkay said in an interview last week. \"This solely shouldn't be about me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had seen other marathon swimmers raise money for diabetes or cancer, but rarely for organizations that focus on homelessness. Knowing firsthand how important these organizations can be, she decided to use her swim to raise money for three California nonprofits focused on homelessness: \u003ca href=\"http://www.godsextendedhand.com/\" target=\"_blank\">God's Extended Hand Mission\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccdsd.org/programs/homeless-womens-services/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel's Women's Center\u003c/a> in San Diego and \u003ca href=\"https://www.projecthomelessconnect.org/2015/06/jazzies-place-americas-first-lgbt-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\">Jazzie's Place\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Giving back to the community that helped me at one point is really important to me personally,\" Berkay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/catalinachannel\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe page\u003c/a>, which has raised more than $1,300 so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkay fell back on her swimming experiences and her \"almost military-style\" training out East to help her get through her hard times after returning to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'If I can do that, I can deal with this economic crisis I'm in right now,'\" she said she told herself. \"That really helped me adjusting to a situation that would be hard to get through if I didn't have that experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkay was rarely in the water during those four years and thought she would never swim again. But it didn't take long for her to kick off any rust she might have had when she joined the Mills College team in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first few times I saw her in the water, it was like a machine,\" Virtue said. \"She was go, go, go. It was like she was her full self in the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After just two months of training at Mills, Berkay became the school's first swimmer to qualify for the NCAA Division III national championships and was named to the Scholar All-America Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has spent the last two months training to swim the Catalina Channel, sometimes spending eight or 10 hours straight in the water. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Franciscans Alexander Massialas and Gerek Meinhardt return to the fencing piste Friday for the Olympic men’s team foil competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is looking to podium after finishing fourth four years ago in London. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In fourth place, you have a little thing in the back of your throat that makes you feel sour,” said Greg Massialas, the team coach and Alexander’s father. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Rio, the team stands a good chance of medaling and possibly winning gold. The International Fencing Federation has ranked them among the top three in the world. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the two San Francisco fencers competed individually, and Massialas won the silver medal. It was the USA’s first individual Olympic medal in men’s fencing since 1984, and first silver since 1932.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bay Area natives train under Greg at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fencingusa.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massialas Foundation Fencing Center\u003c/a> in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276847294″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center has produced some good fencers over the years, but at the Olympics this year its growing presence as a foil powerhouse is remarkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how did a world-class fencing club make its way here in the first place?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2016/08/04/iStock14581190SMALL.jpg\">\n\u003ch2>What is foil?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Foil is one of three fencing weapons. The other two are \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjE87GP8ajOAhVB54MKHSDtByEQFgg3MAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSabre_(fencing)&usg=AFQjCNFuKrsis_En4xjkCYzcBUy3RcmHoQ&sig2=Io5H9vyACBK8sRCN991Qzw&bvm=bv.128987424,d.amc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiuje2X8ajOAhVk0YMKHapqA1MQFgg3MAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F%25C3%2589p%25C3%25A9e&usg=AFQjCNGfGPmYK3J4WcPLCS3VoiHLUFnj1A&sig2=5X4H0oCj5E5IGvFvmSPKBw&bvm=bv.128987424,d.amc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">épée\u003c/a>. Foil involves trying to touch your opponent’s torso with the point of your blade, observing rules on which fencer has the right of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch3>A Fencer Makes His Way to San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Massialas was born in Greece, but his family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, when he was 10 years old. His father suggested he try fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massialas took quickly to the new sport, and by the time he was in college, found himself fencing at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he was a second alternate on the U.S. Olympic fencing team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, at age 24, he made the U.S. Olympic team. It was his time to shine. But fate had other plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, that was the [year of the U.S.] boycott of the Olympics,” Massialas said. “I was fortunate to stay on the team for ’84 and ’88, but my best opportunity for results was in 1980.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massialas settled in San Francisco, having trained in San Jose. He took a job in advertising and started a family. His wife prodded him to start teaching fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, his son, Alexander, was entering preschool at the Chinese American International School, and the headmaster urged Massialas to start a fencing program there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11042645\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11042645\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Massialas is a three-time Olympian who has helped make San Francisco a fencing powerhouse. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Massialas is a three-time Olympian who has helped make San Francisco a fencing powerhouse. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a while, it was an after-work project for Massialas, who kept an early work schedule driven by clients on the East Coast. Again, his wife, Vivian, pushed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a piano teacher, so she appreciates the artistry and discipline of fencing,” Massialas, says. “She said, ‘You could make history, you should be doing this full time.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually Massialas heeded her advice, opening up the Massialas Foundation Fencing Center in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Like Father, Like Son\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s now Alexander Massialas who could make history. He’s the top-ranked individual foil fencer in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"square\" link=\"file\" ids=\"11041600,11041584\"]\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photos: Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was a child, Alexander recalls wanting to jump into training with his dad, but Massialas held off — believing Alexander was too young to take up the sport. His age requirement: 7 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, the kids aren’t physically and mentally ready to follow instructions,” Greg Massialas explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander remembers having to wait more than a year to get on the piste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There would be days when I was ecstatic at the club, getting to watch a sport I knew I wanted to do, and then other days when I would be pouting in a corner because my dad wouldn’t let me start,” says Alexander, now 22 and a student at Stanford. “It was a funny dichotomy depending on the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander had to watch as a slightly older family friend, Gerek Meinhardt, became one of his dad’s star pupils. Meinhardt is currently ranked fourth in the world, and Rio will be his third Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11041587\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010.jpg\" alt=\"Before Gerek Meinhardt began fencing, he took piano lessons with Massialis's wife, Vivian. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1361\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before Gerek Meinhardt began fencing, he took piano lessons with Greg’s wife, Vivian. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before he started fencing, Meinhardt met the Massialas family through a very different avenue — piano lessons with Vivian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would go over their house, take lessons from Greg’s wife, and then they’d drive me to [fencing] practice,” Meinhardt says. “I’d be in the car with Alexander and his younger sister.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Going For Gold\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Four years ago in London, Alexander Massialas was the youngest male athlete to compete on the entire U.S. Olympic team. He and Meinhardt were on a men’s foil team that finished fourth in team competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did better than anyone expected us to,” said Alexander. “But we came home with no hardware.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11041581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. National fencing team athletes Gerek Meinhardt (left) and Race Imboden (right) practice their fencing techniques. Both will be heading to Rio to compete in the 2016 Olympics.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. National fencing team athletes Gerek Meinhardt (left) and Race Imboden (right) practice their fencing techniques. Both will be heading to Rio to compete in the 2016 Olympics. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fencing is a noble and artistic sport, but it can be tedious to stick with. The reality is, when you lose a point, you get stabbed or slashed. Despite these shots to the psyche, Alexander Massialas and Gerek Meinhardt said they never thought about quitting, and never felt pressure to continue from anyone but themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For them, the hunger for a big win has only grown since London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, when you’re at the Olympics,” says Alexander, “you can’t shoot for anything less than gold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Men’s Team Foil Fencing competition begins on Friday, Aug. 12.\u003ca href=\"http://results.nbcolympics.com//schedules/sport=FE/full-schedule.html?intcmp=competition-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Full schedule.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bay Area natives train under Greg at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fencingusa.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massialas Foundation Fencing Center\u003c/a> in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276847294″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276847294″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center has produced some good fencers over the years, but at the Olympics this year its growing presence as a foil powerhouse is remarkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how did a world-class fencing club make its way here in the first place?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2016/08/04/iStock14581190SMALL.jpg\">\n\u003ch2>What is foil?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Foil is one of three fencing weapons. The other two are \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjE87GP8ajOAhVB54MKHSDtByEQFgg3MAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSabre_(fencing)&usg=AFQjCNFuKrsis_En4xjkCYzcBUy3RcmHoQ&sig2=Io5H9vyACBK8sRCN991Qzw&bvm=bv.128987424,d.amc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiuje2X8ajOAhVk0YMKHapqA1MQFgg3MAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F%25C3%2589p%25C3%25A9e&usg=AFQjCNGfGPmYK3J4WcPLCS3VoiHLUFnj1A&sig2=5X4H0oCj5E5IGvFvmSPKBw&bvm=bv.128987424,d.amc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">épée\u003c/a>. Foil involves trying to touch your opponent’s torso with the point of your blade, observing rules on which fencer has the right of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch3>A Fencer Makes His Way to San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Massialas was born in Greece, but his family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, when he was 10 years old. His father suggested he try fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massialas took quickly to the new sport, and by the time he was in college, found himself fencing at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he was a second alternate on the U.S. Olympic fencing team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, at age 24, he made the U.S. Olympic team. It was his time to shine. But fate had other plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, that was the [year of the U.S.] boycott of the Olympics,” Massialas said. “I was fortunate to stay on the team for ’84 and ’88, but my best opportunity for results was in 1980.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massialas settled in San Francisco, having trained in San Jose. He took a job in advertising and started a family. His wife prodded him to start teaching fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, his son, Alexander, was entering preschool at the Chinese American International School, and the headmaster urged Massialas to start a fencing program there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11042645\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11042645\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Massialas is a three-time Olympian who has helped make San Francisco a fencing powerhouse. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Massialas is a three-time Olympian who has helped make San Francisco a fencing powerhouse. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a while, it was an after-work project for Massialas, who kept an early work schedule driven by clients on the East Coast. Again, his wife, Vivian, pushed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a piano teacher, so she appreciates the artistry and discipline of fencing,” Massialas, says. “She said, ‘You could make history, you should be doing this full time.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually Massialas heeded her advice, opening up the Massialas Foundation Fencing Center in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Like Father, Like Son\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s now Alexander Massialas who could make history. He’s the top-ranked individual foil fencer in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photos: Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was a child, Alexander recalls wanting to jump into training with his dad, but Massialas held off — believing Alexander was too young to take up the sport. His age requirement: 7 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, the kids aren’t physically and mentally ready to follow instructions,” Greg Massialas explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander remembers having to wait more than a year to get on the piste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There would be days when I was ecstatic at the club, getting to watch a sport I knew I wanted to do, and then other days when I would be pouting in a corner because my dad wouldn’t let me start,” says Alexander, now 22 and a student at Stanford. “It was a funny dichotomy depending on the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander had to watch as a slightly older family friend, Gerek Meinhardt, became one of his dad’s star pupils. Meinhardt is currently ranked fourth in the world, and Rio will be his third Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11041587\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010.jpg\" alt=\"Before Gerek Meinhardt began fencing, he took piano lessons with Massialis's wife, Vivian. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1361\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before Gerek Meinhardt began fencing, he took piano lessons with Greg’s wife, Vivian. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before he started fencing, Meinhardt met the Massialas family through a very different avenue — piano lessons with Vivian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would go over their house, take lessons from Greg’s wife, and then they’d drive me to [fencing] practice,” Meinhardt says. “I’d be in the car with Alexander and his younger sister.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Going For Gold\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Four years ago in London, Alexander Massialas was the youngest male athlete to compete on the entire U.S. Olympic team. He and Meinhardt were on a men’s foil team that finished fourth in team competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did better than anyone expected us to,” said Alexander. “But we came home with no hardware.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11041581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. National fencing team athletes Gerek Meinhardt (left) and Race Imboden (right) practice their fencing techniques. Both will be heading to Rio to compete in the 2016 Olympics.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. National fencing team athletes Gerek Meinhardt (left) and Race Imboden (right) practice their fencing techniques. Both will be heading to Rio to compete in the 2016 Olympics. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fencing is a noble and artistic sport, but it can be tedious to stick with. The reality is, when you lose a point, you get stabbed or slashed. Despite these shots to the psyche, Alexander Massialas and Gerek Meinhardt said they never thought about quitting, and never felt pressure to continue from anyone but themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For them, the hunger for a big win has only grown since London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, when you’re at the Olympics,” says Alexander, “you can’t shoot for anything less than gold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Men’s Team Foil Fencing competition begins on Friday, Aug. 12.\u003ca href=\"http://results.nbcolympics.com//schedules/sport=FE/full-schedule.html?intcmp=competition-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Full schedule.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The United States took the field in Brazil on Tuesday as the reigning Olympic champion in rugby. None of the current U.S. players could recall that previous moment of glory — because rugby was last played at the Olympics in 1924.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. wasn’t known as a world power in rugby then, and the victory in Paris stunned both the French and the Americans themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early part of the 20th century, rugby was in some places more popular than the new sport of American football, including California. The U.S. team won Olympic gold at the 1920 Games in Antwerp, Belgium. But after World War I, American college athletes were gravitating to American football, and rugby was fading out. By 1924, it was difficult to find enough good American rugby players to field a competitive team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“France, whom the United States defeated for the title in 1920, was very insistent that the titleholder enter a team so that she might be given the opportunity to remove the laurel wreath from the crown of her dear brothers from the U.S.A,” wrote Dudley DeGroot, a player on the 1924 team whose account of the Olympic journey was printed in San Francisco’s The Call newspaper over 23 days that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were looking for a punching bag,” said Norman Cleaveland, a Stanford graduate who played on that 1924 team. He provided an \u003ca href=\"http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/cleaveland_norman.pdf\">oral history that’s at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley\u003c/a>. “We were told to go to Paris and take our beatings like gentlemen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scheduling the Matches to Favor the French\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If France had one gold that seemed certain in the 1924 Olympics, it was in rugby. But just to make sure, Olympic organizers scheduled the rugby competition in May, two months before the rest of the Olympics, at a time when French rugby players would be in top form. That put the Americans on a tight schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046251\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046251\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924RugbyPoster-800x1251.jpg\" alt=\"A poster promoting rugby from the 1924 Paris Olympics.\" width=\"600\" height=\"1251\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster promoting rugby from the 1924 Paris Olympics. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few of the players from 1920 decided to return to the team, and open tryouts filled out the roster. All the players were from California, and they had all played more American football than rugby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early April, the team made their way to New York and set sail on the S.S. America, bound not for Paris, but for England, where they would play practice matches against English teams, considered by many to be the best in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly any group of Americans had a great deal of nerve to travel some 6,000 miles to play the greatest English teams at a game which in every sense of the word is English,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But how much greater (or foolish) that nerve when it is considered that American team had never played a game, as a unit. Nor had any of the members of the team played rugby for four years, while eight of them had never played a game in their lives. And in spite of our confidence in ourselves we often wondered whether we had not undertaken something a little bit bigger than we could handle,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Tournament of Three\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you might be wondering, if Great Britain was the best in the world at rugby, why wasn’t it sending a team on a short trip across the Channel to France for the Olympics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In DeGroot’s journal, he asks the same thing. And Great Britain wasn’t the only team that didn’t attend. The only two countries that agreed to face France in the Olympic rugby tournament were the United States and Romania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone else stayed home, it seemed, not because they were afraid of the French team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were afraid of the French fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Americans reached England, they got a drubbing from two English squads. Then they boarded a boat to France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rough, oh, I’ve never been on such a rough ride,” Cleaveland said in his oral history. “We were seasick and we felt battered around. Well, the French had goofed off, and they hadn’t told the officials in Boulogne that we were coming. So they said we couldn’t get off the boat, we didn’t have any visas. So we said, ‘That’s what you think. You watch us, see if we get off this boat.’ We charged through the gendarmes and through the barriers. The next morning, the Paris papers featured the ‘Big Riot in Boulogne.’ Oh, we were really taken apart in the press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"The 1924 Team USA rugby squad - all of them Californians.\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-800x473.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-400x237.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-960x568.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1924 Team USA rugby squad – all of them Californians. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rugby players settled into their hotel in Paris — the athlete’s village wasn’t yet finished — and started preparing for the tournament. First up was France vs. Romania. The American team watched from the stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The final score of that game, if game it could be called, was 61 to 8 in favor of France,” DeGroot wrote. “We left the field fully realizing just what we were up against. A decidedly sober bunch of Americans, trying to figure out just how we were going to stop that French backfield.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next game was the U.S. vs. Romania. The Americans won easily, 37-0, but the French fans booed and hissed at the winning team throughout the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that the French spectators were unsportsmanlike at that game would be putting it far too mildly,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The French Olympic Committee agreed. In the days before the final between the U.S. and France, they published an appeal in a local newspaper for civility in the wake of the “violent sentiments” shown by French fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Americans play hard,” the committee said, “but never brutally or with bad intent. The Californians who have come over 12,000 (kilometers) to play a sport which is not theirs should have the applauds and the feeling of the French sporting public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to conceive of a nation so unsportsmanlike that such an appeal is necessary,” DeGroot wrote. And then, in reference to World War I, he added, “But it is harder still to try to understand how the people of the French nation could be so hostile to representatives of a country which had so recently saved them from almost certain destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"USA's Garrett Bender (R) runs with the ball in the men's rugby sevens match against Argentina during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Tuesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA’s Garrett Bender (R) runs with the ball in the men’s rugby sevens match against Argentina during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Rowdy Final\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the gold medal game, played on a blisteringly hot and humid Sunday in May, 40,000 fans packed Colombes Stadium in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we were standing at attention during the playing of our anthem, the storm which had been threatening all day broke loose with a tremendous clap of thunder and burst of lightning, which enhanced the majesty of the scene many times,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The odds were five to one against us,” recalled Cleaveland. He added:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really had our dander up. A lot of things we knew about by playing American football the French were yet to learn. They started beating up Americans in the stands. This was during the game. The only way they could get the injured Americans into an ambulance was to bring them onto the field. We thought that some were dead, and we thought that it was only a matter of time before we would be dead, also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play was equally nasty on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The French “did most of their tackling around the neck and shoulders. Consequently when we left our feet and hit them low, it simply laid them out,” DeGroot explained. “The French fullback was a particularly dirty player, persisting in putting his cleated foot in your face. We soon found by tackling him hard and low on the one leg he kept on the ground, he soon got over this. From that time on that fullback couldn’t kick the ball when he got it to save his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the outcome surprised everyone, even the Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, we gave them a waxing,” Cleaveland said. “We won, 17-3.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046262\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from the 1924 gold medal rugby match between France and the U.S.\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-400x254.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-1180x749.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-960x609.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from the 1924 gold medal rugby match between France and the U.S. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Something strange also happened after the big upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The French newspapers switched sides, changed their role 180 degrees, and we became great heroes,” Cleaveland said. “And Paris, I can assure you, is one of the best places in the world to be a hero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman Cleaveland went on a tour of Europe, and worked his way back to Paris to watch the rest of the Olympics — and to enjoy being a hero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley DeGroot got to work on his extended journal for The Call. He ended by questioning whether the Olympics should be held at all:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where will it end? Certainly the French need to be taught true sportsmanship, which is one of the objects of the Olympic games, but such a thing seems to be an impossibility,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The New Rugby\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rugby being played in Rio features just seven players per side, making it faster-paced and higher-scoring than the game of 15 per side that was played in 1924. And rugby is played far more widely today, with 12 teams in the tournament. Neither France nor the U.S. is expected to medal at these games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did the U.S. team do on Tuesday in its first Olympic rugby match in 92 years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Americans lost a close one to Argentina, 17-14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mark Jenkins and Dave Scholz contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 WBUR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org\">WBUR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The United States took the field in Brazil on Tuesday as the reigning Olympic champion in rugby. None of the current U.S. players could recall that previous moment of glory — because rugby was last played at the Olympics in 1924.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. wasn’t known as a world power in rugby then, and the victory in Paris stunned both the French and the Americans themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early part of the 20th century, rugby was in some places more popular than the new sport of American football, including California. The U.S. team won Olympic gold at the 1920 Games in Antwerp, Belgium. But after World War I, American college athletes were gravitating to American football, and rugby was fading out. By 1924, it was difficult to find enough good American rugby players to field a competitive team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“France, whom the United States defeated for the title in 1920, was very insistent that the titleholder enter a team so that she might be given the opportunity to remove the laurel wreath from the crown of her dear brothers from the U.S.A,” wrote Dudley DeGroot, a player on the 1924 team whose account of the Olympic journey was printed in San Francisco’s The Call newspaper over 23 days that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were looking for a punching bag,” said Norman Cleaveland, a Stanford graduate who played on that 1924 team. He provided an \u003ca href=\"http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/cleaveland_norman.pdf\">oral history that’s at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley\u003c/a>. “We were told to go to Paris and take our beatings like gentlemen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scheduling the Matches to Favor the French\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If France had one gold that seemed certain in the 1924 Olympics, it was in rugby. But just to make sure, Olympic organizers scheduled the rugby competition in May, two months before the rest of the Olympics, at a time when French rugby players would be in top form. That put the Americans on a tight schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046251\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046251\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924RugbyPoster-800x1251.jpg\" alt=\"A poster promoting rugby from the 1924 Paris Olympics.\" width=\"600\" height=\"1251\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster promoting rugby from the 1924 Paris Olympics. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few of the players from 1920 decided to return to the team, and open tryouts filled out the roster. All the players were from California, and they had all played more American football than rugby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early April, the team made their way to New York and set sail on the S.S. America, bound not for Paris, but for England, where they would play practice matches against English teams, considered by many to be the best in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly any group of Americans had a great deal of nerve to travel some 6,000 miles to play the greatest English teams at a game which in every sense of the word is English,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But how much greater (or foolish) that nerve when it is considered that American team had never played a game, as a unit. Nor had any of the members of the team played rugby for four years, while eight of them had never played a game in their lives. And in spite of our confidence in ourselves we often wondered whether we had not undertaken something a little bit bigger than we could handle,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Tournament of Three\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you might be wondering, if Great Britain was the best in the world at rugby, why wasn’t it sending a team on a short trip across the Channel to France for the Olympics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In DeGroot’s journal, he asks the same thing. And Great Britain wasn’t the only team that didn’t attend. The only two countries that agreed to face France in the Olympic rugby tournament were the United States and Romania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone else stayed home, it seemed, not because they were afraid of the French team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were afraid of the French fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Americans reached England, they got a drubbing from two English squads. Then they boarded a boat to France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rough, oh, I’ve never been on such a rough ride,” Cleaveland said in his oral history. “We were seasick and we felt battered around. Well, the French had goofed off, and they hadn’t told the officials in Boulogne that we were coming. So they said we couldn’t get off the boat, we didn’t have any visas. So we said, ‘That’s what you think. You watch us, see if we get off this boat.’ We charged through the gendarmes and through the barriers. The next morning, the Paris papers featured the ‘Big Riot in Boulogne.’ Oh, we were really taken apart in the press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"The 1924 Team USA rugby squad - all of them Californians.\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-800x473.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-400x237.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-960x568.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1924 Team USA rugby squad – all of them Californians. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rugby players settled into their hotel in Paris — the athlete’s village wasn’t yet finished — and started preparing for the tournament. First up was France vs. Romania. The American team watched from the stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The final score of that game, if game it could be called, was 61 to 8 in favor of France,” DeGroot wrote. “We left the field fully realizing just what we were up against. A decidedly sober bunch of Americans, trying to figure out just how we were going to stop that French backfield.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next game was the U.S. vs. Romania. The Americans won easily, 37-0, but the French fans booed and hissed at the winning team throughout the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that the French spectators were unsportsmanlike at that game would be putting it far too mildly,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The French Olympic Committee agreed. In the days before the final between the U.S. and France, they published an appeal in a local newspaper for civility in the wake of the “violent sentiments” shown by French fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Americans play hard,” the committee said, “but never brutally or with bad intent. The Californians who have come over 12,000 (kilometers) to play a sport which is not theirs should have the applauds and the feeling of the French sporting public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to conceive of a nation so unsportsmanlike that such an appeal is necessary,” DeGroot wrote. And then, in reference to World War I, he added, “But it is harder still to try to understand how the people of the French nation could be so hostile to representatives of a country which had so recently saved them from almost certain destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"USA's Garrett Bender (R) runs with the ball in the men's rugby sevens match against Argentina during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Tuesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA’s Garrett Bender (R) runs with the ball in the men’s rugby sevens match against Argentina during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Rowdy Final\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the gold medal game, played on a blisteringly hot and humid Sunday in May, 40,000 fans packed Colombes Stadium in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we were standing at attention during the playing of our anthem, the storm which had been threatening all day broke loose with a tremendous clap of thunder and burst of lightning, which enhanced the majesty of the scene many times,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The odds were five to one against us,” recalled Cleaveland. He added:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really had our dander up. A lot of things we knew about by playing American football the French were yet to learn. They started beating up Americans in the stands. This was during the game. The only way they could get the injured Americans into an ambulance was to bring them onto the field. We thought that some were dead, and we thought that it was only a matter of time before we would be dead, also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play was equally nasty on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The French “did most of their tackling around the neck and shoulders. Consequently when we left our feet and hit them low, it simply laid them out,” DeGroot explained. “The French fullback was a particularly dirty player, persisting in putting his cleated foot in your face. We soon found by tackling him hard and low on the one leg he kept on the ground, he soon got over this. From that time on that fullback couldn’t kick the ball when he got it to save his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the outcome surprised everyone, even the Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, we gave them a waxing,” Cleaveland said. “We won, 17-3.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046262\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from the 1924 gold medal rugby match between France and the U.S.\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-400x254.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-1180x749.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-960x609.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from the 1924 gold medal rugby match between France and the U.S. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Something strange also happened after the big upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The French newspapers switched sides, changed their role 180 degrees, and we became great heroes,” Cleaveland said. “And Paris, I can assure you, is one of the best places in the world to be a hero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman Cleaveland went on a tour of Europe, and worked his way back to Paris to watch the rest of the Olympics — and to enjoy being a hero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley DeGroot got to work on his extended journal for The Call. He ended by questioning whether the Olympics should be held at all:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where will it end? Certainly the French need to be taught true sportsmanship, which is one of the objects of the Olympic games, but such a thing seems to be an impossibility,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The New Rugby\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rugby being played in Rio features just seven players per side, making it faster-paced and higher-scoring than the game of 15 per side that was played in 1924. And rugby is played far more widely today, with 12 teams in the tournament. Neither France nor the U.S. is expected to medal at these games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did the U.S. team do on Tuesday in its first Olympic rugby match in 92 years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Americans lost a close one to Argentina, 17-14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mark Jenkins and Dave Scholz contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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So to be able to have this tool helps us level the playing field.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11028255\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Maggie Hogan, 37, says after a long day of training she's sore "everywhere but my eyebrows."\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maggie Hogan, 37, says after a long day of training she’s sore “everywhere but my eyebrows.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You’re a little bit older than most Olympic athletes. 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