Speaking to NewsNation on Thursday, Stephanie Turner said she didn’t take a knee as an “individual attack” against Sullivan.

The 31-year-old kneeled on the fencing strip, or piste, before she ever launched an attack against Redmond Sullivan during their bout at the University of Maryland in College Park on March 30.

A female fencer was disqualified from a competition for refusing to compete against a transgender opponent, USA Fencing told ...