Judges royal personage fencing at Olympic event (6,7)

I believe the answer is:

figure skating

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'olympic event' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'judges royal personage fencing at' is the wordplay.
'judges' becomes 'figures' (figuring is a kind of judging).
'royal personage' becomes 'king'.
'fencing' means one lot of letters goes inside another (to fence can mean to contain or put a limit round).
'king' placed around 'at' is 'kating'.
'figures'+'kating'='FIGURE-SKATING'

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(Another definition for figure skating that I've seen is " Winter Olympics event".)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.

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