‘Believe I’m better fencer now than I was at Tokyo 2020’: For Bhavani Devi,
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“After moving to France, I worked for every competition I competed in, just as I worked hard for the Asian Championships. It’s just that this time the results showed up,” said the 29-year-old.
Having won a historic bronze medal at the recent Asian Fencing Championships in China’s Wuxi, Indian fencer Bhavani Devi believes that she is a better fencer now than when she was at Tokyo, where she became the first Indian fencer to ever compete at an Olympics. The reason? Her move to France to train under sabre master Christian Bauer.
“I believe I’m a better fencer now than I was in Tokyo. My style and way of fencing has changed. I understand fencing as a game, much better now. From Tokyo, the preparation, experiences have helped me to understand better,” Bhavani told The Indian Express on Tuesday. “The position (you stand in on the piste), the way you attack, the strategy, how you plan your tactics (is what has changed). The basics are the same: attack, defense. But how you attack is different: which moment you choose to attack differs from coach to coach. That’s a big difference for me from my previous coach (Nicola Zanotti).”
The changed style she talks about came after she moved to Orleans in France to train under renowned sabre master Christian Bauer in 2021. Until the Olympics, she was based in Livorno where she was working with Zanotti.
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