1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

c) If he tries to parry a stop-hit (coup d’arrêt) and does not succeed, butnevertheless continues his attack.d) If in the execution of a feinte he meets his opponent’s blade and, notwithstandinghis opponent’s riposte, continues the attack.e) If he makes a remise on the immediate riposte of his opponent.2:0 The defender is at fault and the hit is against him:a) If he makes a stop-hit on a simple attack.b) If he makes a time hit, but without cover.3:0 Both are at fault and no hit is scored:a) In the event of a simultaneous attack.b) If one of the combatants makes an attack composed of several feints, withoutcovering himself, and the other, after having attempted to parry the first feints,risk a stop-hit.c) If, in the case of a riposte à temps perdu, the reprise occurs simultaneously.Special rules for the Épée and Sabre Competitions.The rules given above, which were drawn up for the foil competitions, are alsoapplicable to the épée and sabre contests as regards the reconstruction of thephrase d’armes, whereby a hit results.This reconstruction of the phrase and of the thrust is not solely to determine,as in the foil assaults, which of the two opponents is right or wrong from a fencingpoint of view, but to permit the determination of the relative successive positionsof the opposing épées at different moments of the decisive phrase of the contests,in order to be able to determine as clearly as possible the following two factors:the difference in time between the hits, and the varying lengths of the lines ofattack.It must then be considered, not only as a purely theoretical dissertation, butalso as a means of study of the sole practical result which the judges may haveto consider; the coup de pointe for the sword, the coup de pointe and de taillefor the sabre.But since experience shows that the coups doubles (simultaneous hits) are relativelyinfrequent in the serious contests, and as, in any case, it is almost impossibleto decide on the simultaneousness of the two hits, this result — a “Coup double” —always forms a doubtful case.For this reason the judges must by every possible means, i. e.;by reconstructing the phrase d’armes;by determining the relative positions of the opposing weapons;by determining the distance;endeavour to establish the difference of time between the two hits.They then vote to determine which fencer has been hit first, or if there is acoup double.In the case of a coup double, each of the fencers is considered hit.1024