PARIS — Three minutes, three years. Which wait was longer? Was it the three trips around the sun since the Tokyo Olympics? Or was it the three minutes of the final relay of the gold-medal team foil bout at Grand Palais Thursday night?
U.S. fencing star Lee Kiefer said “we have been dreaming of gold for three years.” But she wasn’t the one on the podium piste at the end. Lauren Scruggs was. The Americans led mighty Italy, 40–32, and Scruggs had three minutes to hang onto it. But there were two problems with that.
