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RIO DE JANEIRO -- The United States saw a pair of fencers put themselves in position to win unprecedented gold medals at the Rio Games.Neither came through.But simply getting to the finals helped show how far the Americans have come in a sport where theyve long struggled.Third-ranked Aron Szilagyi of Hungary beat upstart U.S. fencer Daryl Homer to win gold in mens sabre Wednesday.Despite the loss, Homer earned the second silver medal for the American mens fencing team in Rio, joining Stanfords Alexander Massialas.Were trying to raise the visibility of the sport, Homer said. We are very competitive with each other, and its great. I love that.Homers impressive final touch gave him a thrilling 15-14 victory over Irans Mojtaba Abedini in the semifinals and put him within a win of the first gold for the U.S. men in the modern era.Szilagyi proved to be too much for the 10th-ranked American, who fell 15-8.Still, the Bronx-born Homer finished as well as any U.S. fencer in his weapon ever had.Homer found out about fencing when he was five by reading his dictionary. He begged his mother, Juliette Smith, to let him try out the sport, and Homer wound up under the tutelage of former American fencer Peter WestbrookWestbrooks foundation is designed to mentor inner-city youth through fencing. It has also been crucial in the career of Ibtihaj Muhammad -- who made history on Monday as the first U.S. athlete to compete wearing a hijab.Homer emerged as one of Westbrooks prized pupils, earning spots on four All-America teams while at St. Johns. He took silver at a world championship event in 2015, continuing the countrys steady rise in fencing from the Beijing and London Olympics.Homer won his first three matches Wednesday by relatively comfortable margins to reach the semifinals. Homer then faced a furious challenge from Abedini, who overcame a seven-point run from Homer to force a do-or-die situation.Homer exploded to the center of the piste for a touch that put him into the finals.I was like `No regrets. If I lose doing this, Im going to lose doing this and I dont care. And that was literally how I rolled out, Homer said. If you want a medal, you have to do something big for it.But Szilagyi never let the athletic Homer dictate the pace of the match, instead neutralizing Homer with quick strikes that put the American in a hole too deep.Daryl is a very aggressive, very dynamic fencer, Szilagyi said. My strategy was to break his dynamism ... and not let him aggressively attack me.Russian Inna Deriglazova won gold in womens foil, giving her country its second fencing title of the Rio Games.Deriglazova beat Italys Elisa Di Francisca, the gold medalist from the London Olympics, 12-11 to claim a world title for the second year in a row.Deriglazova found herself up a point with just 2.5 seconds left, a situation that tested the old adage that athletes who compete not to lose typically lose.But Deriglazova was able to run backward until the clock ran out.Whatever it took to do in those last two seconds, to run away, to fall down, I would do that. It didnt matter, Deriglazova said.Third-ranked American Lee Kiefer lost in the round of 16, and said afterward that this will likely be her last Olympic appearance. Custom Ken Daneyko Jersey . Tuesdays surgery at Atlantas Piedmont Hospital was performed by Dr. Xavier Duralde and Hawks team physician Dr. Michael Bernot. 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John Lucas, signed as a mentor for rookie Trey Burke, showed he can score if required, scoring 12 points of his 16 points in the second quarter as Utah built an 18-point lead.Three hundreds but no wickets - Englands first-Test fortunes against India offer a stark contrast after day two. Click on the video above to see the best of the action from the second day in Rajkot, as England posted 537 only for their hosts to ease to 63-0 at stumps.After Joe Roots classy 124 on day one, Ben Stokes (128) and Moeen Ali (117) both posted hundreds - the latter, reaching his in the first over of the day after being 99 not out overnight. When Ali was bowled bizarrely for 117 when leaving a straight ball by Mohammad Shami, Stokes took up the challenge - but only after he was dropped twice by Wriddhiman Saha in consecutive Umesh Yadav overs.Stokes shared in a 99-run stand with Jonny Bairstow (46)), who fell to Shami just before lunch as Saha finally clung onto one behind the stumps.ddddddddddddAll-rounder Stokes reached three figures in the afternoon, but struggled for fluency before eventually edging Yadav down the leg-side.India openers Murali Vijay and Gautam Gambhir put Englands first dig into some context by posting a fifty stand off 95 balls in relative comfort.Watch extended highlights from day two of the first Test from 2pm and 8pm on Sky Sports 2, with The Verdict following immediately afterwards at 3pm and 9pm. Also See: Scorecard Over-by-over Get Sky Sports Cricket videos ' ' '