There was double team success for hosts Italy on the penultimate day of the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Fencing World Championships in Milan, where they won women's foil and men's épée gold.

Ukraine's Olha Kharlan has been promised an "additional quota place" for the Paris 2024 Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) if she does not qualify, after yesterday's highly controversial disqualification at the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Fencing World Championships.

Italy's Tommaso Marini won the host nation's second gold medal of the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Fencing World Championships in Milan, while Japan's Misaki Emura defended her women's sabre title.

Russian athlete Iana Bekmurzova, competing as a neutral, reached the women's épée round-of-64 on the first day of the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Fencing World Championships in Milan.

Russian sabre fencer Dmitry Danilenko has refused to compete at International Fencing Federation (FIE) events as a neutral, describing the requirements as "unfair".

Four-time Olympic foil medallist Inna Deriglazova is among the latest Russian athletes rejected by the International Fencing Federation (FIE) to compete at its events.

The International Fencing Federation (FIE) has decided to strip individual events at the 2023 European Games in Kraków-Małopolska of their Olympic qualifier status.

Russian athletes are absent from two ongoing International Fencing Federation (FIE) events, and the Belarusian Fencing Federation (BRFF) has written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) criticising conditions required for the return of its athletes.

The International Fencing Federation (FIE) has barred Russians Sofia Velikaya, Yana Yegoryan, and Sofia Pozdniakova from competing at this year's World Championships in Milan from July 22 to 30.

German police have reportedly searched the headquarters of Bayern Munich as part of a money laundering investigation into self-suspended International Fencing Federation (FIE) President Alisher Usmanov.

The Norwegian Fencing Federation (NFF) has ruled that it will not send its athletes to events that feature Russian or Belarussian competitors and withdrawn Oslo Cup from the international programme. 

United States athletes were banned from wearing Ukrainian symbols at the foil International Fencing Federation (FIE) Grand Prix in Busan in protest at the governing body's decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to return to its competitions.

The Polish Fencing Federation has admitted it could cancel a women's foil International Fencing Federation (FIE) World Cup scheduled for next month in Poznań due to the readmission of Russian and Belarusian athletes.

Poland's Renata Knapik-Miazga and Gabriele Cimini of Italy sealed individual victories in the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Épée Grand Prix in Budapest.

German Fencing Federation President and former International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Claudia Bokel has claimed that "geopolitics" influenced the International Fencing Federation's (FIE) decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to return to its competitions.