USA Fencing has revealed its hospitality home for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics: a "Maison d'Escrime" at the historic Biltmore Los Angeles in downtown LA, 1.8 miles from the LA Convention Center where the Games' fencing competition will be staged across an eight-day window.
The federation, which announced the partnership through Sports Examiner this week, says the invitation-only venue will host the US Olympic and Paralympic fencing delegations, federation partners, donors and major funders of the US Fencing Foundation across the entire run of the Games.
"Members of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic fencing delegation will have full access throughout the Games, as will USA Fencing partners, and major funders of the U.S. Fencing Foundation," USA Fencing said in its statement.
The venue will also "host athletes, their families, donors, sponsors, USA Fencing members and special guests across the run of the Games," the federation added.
The Biltmore arrangement copies a shared-house model used by several US winter-sports National Governing Bodies at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games. There, US Figure Skating, USA Hockey and US Speedskating shared a joint "Winter House" rather than each renting a separate hospitality venue. USA Fencing has confirmed it will sublet portions of the Biltmore footprint to other Summer Games NGBs whose competitions sit at the LA Convention Center cluster, with weightlifting and table tennis among the most likely partners.
The choice of the Biltmore is itself a statement piece. Opened in 1923 and the host of the Academy Awards across eight separate years from 1931 to 1942, the property is one of the few hospitality venues in Los Angeles old enough to predate Hollywood's modern era — a deliberate counterpoint to fencing's role as one of the oldest Olympic sports.
USA Fencing's investment in LA28 hospitality forms part of a broader federation push. The governing body launched an "En Garde!" foam-foil schools programme in February, opening up entry-level fencing to public schools in LA County and Chicago, and has invested in hospitality partnerships for the next 18 months of FIE World Cup events. The Maison d'Escrime concept itself borrows from a long tradition of national fencing federations setting up named "houses" at Olympic Games, dating back to France's hosting model in Paris 1924.
The Olympic fencing programme at LA28 will run across an eight-day window that World Athletics confirmed earlier this year. All twelve medal events — six individual, six team — will be contested at the LA Convention Center, with the venue configured as a single-piste finals hall for the showpiece bouts and four-piste pools-format setup for the early-round elimination matches.
USA Fencing has not disclosed the cost of the Biltmore arrangement. The federation does say, however, that all revenue from associated sponsor activations at the Maison d'Escrime will flow into the US Fencing Foundation's athlete-support funds — the dedicated support pool that pays training stipends, equipment costs and travel for US senior team members during the Games.
The Maison d'Escrime will be operational across the LA28 fencing competition window in summer 2028.
