Swimming
ASIAD 2026: Three Japanese Swimmers, One Marchand File, and a Few Numbers That Do Not Reconcile2026-09-26I opened the pond ledger and found 412 names the page never counted. In the...
Curzan and Heilman Are CSL Match 2 MVPs: In Swimming, the Ledger Outlasts the Applause2026-09-27In December 2026 I filed a 50m freestyle bronze to the wrong lane at the...
22.91 Twice: Bahrain's First Swimming Gold, and the Citizenship France Never Granted2026-09-26The board read 22.91. At a long-course meet in France in June, Michel...
Seven Golds and One Unratified Record: How Auditable Is the Asian Games Swimming File?2026-09-26The report that landed on my desk last week carries one repeated annotation...
The Number That Does Not Add Up: The ‘New Phelps’ Fear and Japan’s Swimming Pipeline2026-09-26I do not trust a dashboard I have not charted by hand. In 2026 I logged all 6...
SwimmingCurzan and Heilman Are CSL Match 2 MVPs: In Swimming, the Ledger Outlasts the ApplauseIn December 2026 I filed a 50m freestyle bronze to the wrong lane at the...
Swimming22.91 Twice: Bahrain's First Swimming Gold, and the Citizenship France Never GrantedThe board read 22.91. At a long-course meet in France in June, Michel...
SwimmingSeven Golds and One Unratified Record: How Auditable Is the Asian Games Swimming File?The report that landed on my desk last week carries one repeated annotation...
SwimmingThe Number That Does Not Add Up: The ‘New Phelps’ Fear and Japan’s Swimming PipelineI do not trust a dashboard I have not charted by hand. In 2026 I logged all 6...
SwimmingASIAD 2026: Three Japanese Swimmers, One Marchand File, and a Few Numbers That Do Not ReconcileI opened the pond ledger and found 412 names the page never counted. In the...
Swimming52.11 Seconds Inside the Yards Enclosure: Gorbenko's Third-Fastest Swim Ever, and What That Sentence Actually SaysThe board flashed 52.11. Beneath it, in small type: third-fastest performance...
SwimmingTwenty Minutes Apart: Zhang Zhanshuo's 800m Games Record and a 47.65 Relay Split — Reading the Load, the Shoulder and the FatigueThe Last Fifty Metres The clock shows 7:42.49, and in the second after the...
Swimming22.91 Twice: Bahrain's First Swimming Gold, and the Citizenship France Never GrantedThe board read 22.91. At a long-course meet in France in June, Michel...
SwimmingSeven Golds and One Unratified Record: How Auditable Is the Asian Games Swimming File?The report that landed on my desk last week carries one repeated annotation...
SwimmingThe Number That Does Not Add Up: The ‘New Phelps’ Fear and Japan’s Swimming PipelineI do not trust a dashboard I have not charted by hand. In 2026 I logged all 6...
SwimmingASIAD 2026: Three Japanese Swimmers, One Marchand File, and a Few Numbers That Do Not ReconcileI opened the pond ledger and found 412 names the page never counted. In the...
Swimming52.11 Seconds Inside the Yards Enclosure: Gorbenko's Third-Fastest Swim Ever, and What That Sentence Actually SaysThe board flashed 52.11. Beneath it, in small type: third-fastest performance...
SwimmingTwenty Minutes Apart: Zhang Zhanshuo's 800m Games Record and a 47.65 Relay Split — Reading the Load, the Shoulder and the FatigueThe Last Fifty Metres The clock shows 7:42.49, and in the second after the...