China seeks to break European fencing domination

China is aiming to break Europe's fencing domination at the Olympics even though its only gold winner now competes for another country.

In Athens four years ago, China won three silver medals and lost the men's foil team final to Italy after a referee made a series of scoring mistakes that possibly cost it the gold.

That team competition has been dropped from the Beijing program but in the individual event China's Sheng Lei and Jun Zhu will hope to ride the local crowd's support to the podium.