Growing up in cutthroat New York gave Lauren Scruggs the competitive mindset needed to claim an unexpected fencing silver medal on her Olympic debut in Paris.
The 21-year-old Queens native shared the podium with fellow American Lee Kiefer, who retained her Olympic title in the women’s individual foil event gold medal bout on Sunday.
“I’ve grown up in New York my whole life. It can be kind of rough sometimes,” Scruggs, the first Black American fencer to win an Olympic medal in a women’s individual event, told Reuters.
“You develop a hard shell, and in terms of how that translates to my fencing, I think it came out, that energy and that toughness.”
When Scruggs found herself neck-and-neck with then world No 2 Arriana Errigo in the quarterfinals, she managed to score the last touch, knocking out the Italian 15-14.
Source: eNCA
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