Tag: Eli Dershwitz

  • Nation & World

    Eli Dershwitz’s road to the Olympics

    Harvard sophomore Eli Dershwitz represented the United States at the Summer Olympics in the men’s saber fencing competition in Rio de Janeiro. While he didn’t win a medal this time, Dershwitz said the intense training and discipline required to make it to Brazil gave him the confidence to succeed at Harvard and the drive to…

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  • Nation & World

    Harvard fencer heads for Olympics

    There’s “no crying in baseball,” actor Tom Hanks famously quipped in the 1992 film “A League of Their Own,” but some fencers have been known to shed a tear. Just…

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