"College and professional football," she says, and clarifies further. "Tackle football. Americans have a blind spot about the harm it does athletes, and how they treat them in general." Being sort of the jock of her family she's familiar enough with these issues to set her jaw thinking about them, but she doesn't go farther off track. "Schools prefer to underline the team-building part of the game. Fencing is largely solitary, and as you say, it's associated with the wealthy."