1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

versary has no value if the fencer has had time to recognize that an accident hashappened.The Corps à corps will be stopped by the President.It is a corps à corps when the fencers are in actual bodily contact, or whenone of the fencers ceases to parry only with his weapon and defends himself withany part of his body.The corps à corps must not be confused with the combat rapproché, which isallowable.It is forbidden to hinder the action of an opponent’s weapon with the arm orhand or to make use of the unemployed arm and hand for parrying.Special rules for the contests with foils.The combats shall be carried out according to the fencing rules.The attacker must take cover.The receiver of an attack must first parry.The coup double is the movement which most damages the art of fencing.A fencer who, either by not parrying or not completing the phrase, thereby producesa ‘coup double’, has a hit scored against himself alone.In case of an initial movement of aggression at the same instant, the ‘coupdouble’ is not counted.If, in a case of this kind, one of the simultaneous hits is made on a prohibitedpart of the body, this hit is not counted unless the jury should be firmly persuadedthat the prohibited portion was not deliberately aimed at, or exposed intentionally.The stop-hit (coup d’arrêt) is a counter-attack made upon the opponent’s preparationto attack, or upon a feint. If a player who attemps to make a stop-hit,hits his adversary and is himself untouched, or if he hits his opponent an appreciableinterval of time before he is himself touched, the hit is in his favour. If he ishit simultaneously (coup double), the hit is in favour of his opponent.The time-hit (coup de temps) is a counter-attack made with opposition uponthe opponents’s attack in such a way that it parries the attack on which it is made.A time attack is valid only if the player who attempts it remains absolutely untouched,and in case of simultaneous hits, the hit is against the fencer who delivers thetime hit.The redoublement is the renewal of an attack, immediately after the first, madeeither in the same line or otherwise.Its aim is to profit by the disorder caused by the first attack on an opponentwho has parried without a riposte, or who has avoided a hit by retreating.In the first case the second attack is preceded by a reprise of the backwardguard, in the second case by a forward guard.The Reprise d’attaque is an attack made, without retrieving, after an adverseparade not followed by a riposte.In the case of a riposte directe (à temps perdu) if the reprise d’attaque resultin the coup double, the resulting hits are invalid (simultaneous attacks).The remise is a time hit, made after the development, and without retrieving,on a riposte composée. It is practiced also after an insufficient parade and whichis not followed by a riposte.a) In the case of a riposte composée, if the remise results in the coup double,the riposte alone is valid (time hit).b) If there is a remise on the immediate riposte, only the riposte is valid.When the two fencers are hit simultaneously — three cases can arise:1st. The attacker alone may be declared hit.2nd. The defender3rd. A hit may be counted against neither.That is to say: 1:0 The attacker is at fault and the hit is against him:a) If he runs on the point of his opponent, with his arm naturally extendedagainst him, without having attacked so as to make the blade deviate fromthe line.b) If, on attempting an attack on the blade, he is deceived but continues hisattack.1023