Motorcycle Accident On Road Trip After Return From Tokyo Olympics
Buckie Leach, regarded mentor and head of USA Fencing, has passed on.
Filter "died on Saturday night at 62 years old after a bike mishap on a cross-country excursion after his return from the Tokyo Olympic Games," an assertion from USA Fencing affirmed. 메이저사이트
The adored mentor, who was additionally an associate mentor for University of Notre Dame fencing and was drafted into the U.S. Fencing Hall of Fame in 2013, drove the U.S. Ladies' foil group at the 1996 Atlanta Games, 2000 Sydney Games and 2004 Athens Games just as the 2016 Rio and the current year's Tokyo Games.
Only three weeks prior, Leach's previous Notre Dame understudy Lee Kiefer turned into the principal U.S. Lady to acquire Olympic gold in ladies' foil in her third Games.
Kiefer set fourth in the ladies' foil group with crew individuals Sabrina Massialas, Nicole Ross and Jackie Dubrovich. (Massialas completed eighteenth, Ross completed twelfth and Dubrovich 21st in the individual contest.)
Filter was additionally the school mentor of Irishman Nick Itkin, the Olympian who acquired bronze in Tokyo with the men's foil group alongside Kiefer's significant other and individual Notre Dame understudy Gerek Meinhardt.
Itkin, who won consecutive school titles in 2018 and 2019, completed twelfth in his Olympic introduction as an individual contender while Meinhardt completed seventeenth.
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"Our hearts are broken at the deficiency of U.S. Ladies' Foil Team mentor Buckie Leach only fourteen days in the wake of driving the crew at his fifth Olympic Games," Team USA Fencing shared via online media Sunday.