Lee Kiefer became the first American ever to win the gold medal in women’s foil fencing. She’s also in medical school, so she was waking up at 5 a.m. and going to work during the worst days of the pandemic.
Kentucky is not the first place that you would expect to find a good fencer. It might actually be the last. But when two of the best fencers on Team USA hunkered down there during the pandemic, they had a good reason for picking such a remote outpost of their sport.Gerek Meinhardt and Lee Kiefer, who also happen to be husband and wife, spent the first year of their marriage battling with swords on a basement fencing strip they built themselves between hospital rounds and medical-school lectures.
Kiefer was in her third year at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, which meant she was waking up at 5 a.m. and going to work during the worst days of the pandemic. She’s one of the few people in Tokyo who regrets not being able to spend more time in a hospital around Covid-19 patients. Meinhardt was planning to start his first year at the age of 30 after his fourth Summer Games last year. The Olympics were postponed. Medical school wasn’t. By the time he got on a plane one
year after he expected, his Zoom avatar was a photo of himself in a sparkling white uniform. It’s not his fencing jacket. It’s his doctor’s coat.
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