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Supportingteammarcus BRITISH FENCING MAGAZINE JULY 2021 #SUPPORTINGTEAMMARCUS - FOCUS ON MEPSTEAD - CELEBRATING KRUSE - OLYMPIC PREVIEW WELCOME TO THE SWORD 4 NEWS 27 COMMUNITY UK Sport - New Strategy Club Spotlight Member Bonus - BF Perks 29 EDUCATION The Making of UKC Fencing 6 FEATURES On Board 31 OBITUARIES Keith Smith Kruse - The Next Chapter Barbara Paul Road to Tokyo Connie Adam The Mepstead Secret 35 #SUPPORTINGTEAMMARCUS “2020” Qualification Review 20 COMMUNITY Travel to Tokyo KRUSE INTERVIEW 21 FEATURE An Appointment with Dr Katz P8 23 DEVELOPMENT Supporting Mental Health High Performance Coaches Some of the images within this magazine were taken prior to Covid restrictions. Editor: Safeguarding Hotline: Cover photo: Overseas airmail £26 - direct Karim Bashir, British Fencing Liz Behnke, Equality and Marcus Mepstead. from HQ. Contributions are 1 Baron’s Gate, Safeguarding Manager © Getty Images welcome. Photographs should 33–35 Rothschild Road, M: 07526 003030 include the names of those London W4 5HT British Fencing accepts no pictured and the photographer. T: 020 8742 3032 Typeset by: responsibility for the contents of E: [email protected] JS Typesetting Ltd advertisements and reserves the right Views expressed in The Sword T: 01656 788551 to refuse inclusion. do not necessarily reflect those Print: E: [email protected] of British Fencing. No part of the Cambrian Printers, The Sword, a quarterly magazine magazine may be reproduced Llanbadarn Fawr, Advertising: founded in 1948, is distributed to all without permission from the Aberystwyth, Karim Bashir individual and club members of British editor/photographer. Ceredigion, SY23 3TN M: 07855 252546 Fencing and its affiliates. It can also be T: 01970 613059 E: [email protected] obtained on subscription - UK £20. Next deadline: 6 August 2021 July 2021 | 3 THE SWORD UK SPORT - NEW STRATEGY News POWERING SUCCESS, INSPIRING IMPACT UK Sport We know that most people in sport have the right standards and values to Integrity is the foundation upon which navigate the complexity of accelerating sport is built. Demonstrating conduct that human performance within a challenging, is honest and ethical; providing safe, fair supportive and nurturing environment. and inclusive environments; playing by the However, a system founded on the pursuit rules. These are things that help define of sporting excellence must also strive for sport and underpin its value to our society. excellence in integrity. UK Sport’s new strategy sets out an In 2017, we took new steps to support unequivocal commitment to win with sports to enhance their high-performance integrity. The public wants us to keep culture and integrity. We established a winning but they want us to win the Culture Team to support National Governing right way. Ever-increasing athlete, sport will be exploring these ideas across the Bodies (NGBs) to further develop positive and public confidence in the way we win Sports Councils and our key partners and cultures in their high-performance is therefore essential to ensuring that stakeholders. programmes, led by a new annual Culture success creates a strong platform to reach, Health Check. We also established an inspire and unite the nation. We will develop these priorities in the Integrity Team to support NGBs to deliver coming months and reflect on them in their responsibilities to uphold the integrity Integrity is not just an issue for high- the context of the findings of the Whyte standards that they set within their sports. performance sport. Enhancing integrity Review, which is expected to report later in must be a whole-sport endeavour, and the year. This will be an important moment we will therefore be working closely with As we start the Paris 2024 cycle, this paper for us all in sport, and we want to listen to all the Sports Councils across the UK on sets out our future priorities for sport and understand its conclusions. Once that this. Our focus is principally on conduct- integrity, to help ensure that instances has taken place, we will set out a clear related issues, given the more established of unacceptable behaviour are as low as integrity strategy for the future. regulatory frameworks covering other possible and (when they do occur) that they integrity areas such as anti-doping, are dealt with swiftly and effectively. Summary safeguarding and match-fixing, however Working together, both as a high- we recognise the intersectionality that Our Priorities performance community and across all the often exists between these. UK Sport, alongside the other Sports Sports Councils, is essential if we are to Councils, is not a regulatory body and, protect the integrity of sport and continue Progress to Date therefore, has no legal power to oversee to grow a thriving sporting system. We will High-performance sport attracts the conduct of sporting organisations continue to develop the thinking around remarkable people working at the very and the people within them. However, these priorities, with a view to revisiting limits of human endeavour. The nation is as a leadership body in sport, and an them later in the year once the Whyte hugely proud of its athletes and coaches. investor of public money, we have a clear Review has reported, and then setting out They have excelled at recent Olympic and responsibility to do as much as we can a clear and ambitious strategy for integrity Paralympic Games and established the to influence and lead positive change. across the sporting system. UK amongst the world’s most successful We have identified four priority areas sporting countries. to enhance the integrity of sport and Read the full article here. Get noticed!! Advertise in The Sword. Email the editor: [email protected] July 2021 | 4 THE SWORD BF PERKS News NEW BENEFITS FOR MEMBERS Sophie DeVooght - Media and Communications Manager Members of British Fencing can now learning providers. Over 92% of courses are save money and increase their wellbeing free. with BF Perks. Available for all valid BF members, BF Perks offers financial savings The most popular courses so far span at hundreds of retailers, as well as learning, a range of subjects from languages to wellbeing and fitness modules. computing, including a 4-week Sports Foundation Course, and an interesting Valid members can access BF Perks at course from the University of Glasgow: The no extra cost via a new tab within the Scottish Highland Clans: Origins, Decline membership platform. 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