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EXCLUSIVE: The former chief coach of the US Olympic fences team. Uu. Andrey Geva filed a lawsuit against the president of Fencing from the United States.
Geva, member of the US Board of Fencing. The demand seeks to take Lehfeldt as president.
Geva has prepared the alleged false comments that affirms that Lehfeldt did in an exclusive interview with Pak Gazette Digital.
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The members of the Women’s USEE team No. Six World World World, from left to right, Kelley Hurley, Courtney Hurley, Katharine Holmes, Katarzyne Trzopek and coach Andrey Geva, pose for a group photo during the competition of the Women’s EPEE in the Pan-American Finez Championship of June 24, 2016 Basque conventions Nunez de Balboa in Balboa in Balboa in Balboa. (Devin Manky/Getty images)
Geva pointed out a Lehfeldt statement, when the president said: “Women most commonly exhibit other advantageous features, such as flexibility and agility. Ultimately, fencing is a sport of strategy and technique. Those elements will be more frequent that prevails that they prevail and, when it is a strategy and technique, or sex does not have the status of inherent gym Advantage of any advantage of any advantage over an advantage in any way or so, so it is not an advantage of any advantage over an advantage of even more or less, so it is not an advantage of any advantage over the status of advantage of any of those that is not an advantage status over which it is nothing more than an advantage of any window, so it is an advantage of any advantage of any advantage of any advantage over an eye of the advantage of a sex Cisgenero have hit. “
As a former coach of Olympic fences, Geva believes that this statement is false. Geva served as the main coach of the US team. UU. And managing director of 2013-21, leading the team through the Rio and Tokyo 2016 Olympics in 2021. The United States took six Olympic medals under Geva’s leadership, including gold in the female individual role in Tokyo.
“This is simply not true, and this is what I said many times, that I have an experience like someone who successfully trained the male and female features at the highest international level,” said Geva, who then refers to how he trained his own male and female students.
“I trained them differently. I have a different approach to male and female feedback because they are different.”
Geva also argued that Lefheldt made a “misleading” statement when the president referred to “a mixed gender competition where men and women have competed safely and fairly for decades”, due to the fact that mixed gender competitions are rare nationwide.
“It is a misleading statement. Yes, in practice, men and women are among themselves, there is no problem. The local tournament, not designated, not the sanctioned tournaments will sometimes have mixed events. Sometimes, when a female competition does not have enough competition, we will have mixed events,” Geva said.
“However, there are zero mixed events nationwide.”
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USA FENCING has official national events for the categories of men and women. The organization sanctions mixed gender events at the local level, according to the official policy page.
USA FENING responded to Geva’s claim in a statement proportionate to Pak Gazette Digital, but the organization refused to address its recent comments.
“USA. Fencing proudly attends its members (athletes, coaches, referees and clubs) throughout our community with absolute transparency and integrity. This demand derived from our organization, and we will strongly defend the organization in court; any attempt to despise them will be adequately addressed,” reads the declaration.
“Because the litigation is in progress, we cannot discuss the details. Our approach remains unwavering: to advance in fences throughout the country, support the success of each member and maintain the values of the Olympic and Paralympic movement.”
The lawsuit states that Lehfeldt’s statements at the May 7 hearing now run the risk that the organization will be declassified as a national government body and “have alienated thousands of members in the fencing community that have provided more than 90% of the USFA’s income.”
Geva told Pak Gazette Digital that it has communicated with several private clubs associated with the Fencing of the United States. That they have left the organization in response to their current transgender legibility policy that allows biological men to compete in female competitions, and moved to the Fencing League of America of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).
“Due to the EE. UU., Some of the clubs actually renounce, small clubs, abandoned the EE. UU membership members. “I know enough clubs that stop membership in the Fencing of the United States.”
Geva declined to name the clubs that, according to him, had resigned. An unidentified source within the US Fencing Organization. Uu argued that the organization has seen record growth in the last year.
“The season ending next month (2024-25) is a record year for the Fencing of the USA. With more than 43,000 members and almost 750 clubs, both records. So it goes against any statement that” we have “attacked” of any news, “said the source.
Geva also said that the organization is growing, but “for different reasons.”
“In general, our federation is growing, but this is mainly because, like any organization, it is a natural growth. It is very difficult to judge if we are growing because we are doing an excellent job, or just because more and more people discover that the fence is the niche and the way of reaching the university,” Geva said.
The organization has been under immense national scrutiny after a viral incident when the fencing of women Stephanie Turner knelt to protest a transgender opponent and was subsequently punished by the Fencing of the US.
Lefheldt’s testimony at the May 7 audience only intensified criticism.
Lehfeldt, who was summoned and did not come voluntarily, raised the controversy before the audience with a series of Instagram stories that were then exploited and used against him on the committee’s floor. In a publication, which went viral before the audience, he answered a question that he asked if he was “well” to put the female features at a disadvantage with a simple and shameless response: “Yes.”
Then, during the audience, Lehfeldt admitted several times that he regretted having answered that way and admitted that the question required a “more nuanced” answer.
Kelley Hurley talks to coach Andrey Geva while defeating Erika Kirpu at the Epee individual table of 32 of women during Tokyo 2020 Summer Games in Makuhari Messe Hall B. (Yukihito Taguchi-USA Today Network)
At one point during the audience, Lefheldt confessed to falsify an email of a fictitious fencing mother, “Dorothy”, who did not agree with him and called those members with similar “Dorothy” “Great Mago” opinions of the Ku Klux Klan.
Lehfeldt said the publication “was a bad attempt at humor.”
Geva believes that the publication should be sufficient to cause Lehfeldt’s resignation.
“This is more than enough, any decent person in my opinion, after this Fiasco at this audience of the Congress, should resign,” Geva said. “I think that under his leadership our federation is in the wrong direction.”
