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![Thankfully, Sullivan has found that the actual fencing community has rallied to her side, and is reading "incredibly" supportive comments across platforms, including Reddit and Facebook. She reiterates that fencing is hardly a matter of broad public interest compared to stories like Trump's tariffs or Israel's war on Gaza.
"Even when it's an Olympic cycle," she says, "if you were to say, 'Name a gold medal Olympian [fencer], people would be like,
'What's fencing?'"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lzahebnas6od6j6jfydwst7/bafkreifmydnaynwba7l3gwuxjno25zuybj7iuffkrthptxn4npq5ug3poi)
![USA Fencing has so far stood by the decision to eject Turner from the Cherry Blossom, which will not affect her eligibility for future events. The expulsion, they said in a statement,
"was not related to any personal statement but was merely the direct result of her decision to decline to fence an eligible opponent, which the [International Fencing Federation] rules clearly prohibit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lzahebnas6od6j6jfydwst7/bafkreiewwpdbwzqid2kr3b766dptugy6ybtc5m5nlr4pma7oi2a24fx3ii)
