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A Paralympic fencer said he was not allowed to use a hotel room he had booked and paid for when staff saw he was using a wheelchair.

One of the best known shows Moffitt wearing a stretch knit swimsuit with fencer’s visor and tall boots.

Not only did she secure the title in women’s team foil, she also helped teammate Lee Kiefer earn a record third career gold, most ever for an American fencer.

Every four years the world pauses for two weeks to cheer on rowers, fencers, archers and weightlifters, who win and lose in anonymity for most of their careers.

“Nothing compares to this, no, absolutely not,” American fencer Lee Kiefer said after winning gold in the women’s foil.