Swimming
October 2026: A 25-Metre Net, One Wrong Date, and Only One Real Selection
A Night of Seven Golds and Unverified Records: The Asian Games Times Nobody Has Ratified
A 'Seven-Gold' Night in the Swimming Ledger: China's Zhang Zhanshuo, Japan's Teen Shin Ohashi, and the Records That Need Verification
Same Golds, Eight Fewer Medals: China's Depth Ledger at the 2026 Asian Games Swimming
3:41.28 and 2:04.83: The Two Numbers That Have Not Entered the Ledger Yet
SwimmingOctober 2026: A 25-Metre Net, One Wrong Date, and Only One Real SelectionLast week I opened my laptop at two in the morning to cross-check one thing:...
SwimmingA Night of Seven Golds and Unverified Records: The Asian Games Times Nobody Has RatifiedThe dateline reads Tokyo, Friday, September 25 — but no year is given, and...
Swimming3:41.28 and 2:04.83: The Two Numbers That Have Not Entered the Ledger YetThe rain had just stopped in Rangpur when the clock crossed half past midnigh...
SwimmingTwo MVPs and One Empty Lane: Reading CSL Match 2 Against the Delta's Swimming LedgerPast one in the morning in Chattogram, I opened a laptop on the balcony and...
SwimmingA 'Seven-Gold' Night in the Swimming Ledger: China's Zhang Zhanshuo, Japan's Teen Shin Ohashi, and the Records That Need VerificationThe Anomaly First I have watched swimming data for years. In my experience, a...
SwimmingStanford's Ledger: 0.17 Seconds, an Unfinished Book, and Swimming's Real PipelineI still think about the outdoor 50m complex at Mirpur. My first swimming byli...
SwimmingTatjana Smith in the Short-Course Mirror: 0.11 Seconds and South Africa's Narrow PillarIn December 2026, at the open-air 50m complex in Mirpur, I stood with a print...
SwimmingSame Golds, Eight Fewer Medals: China's Depth Ledger at the 2026 Asian Games SwimmingFour Numbers, One Gap Last night I turned a page in my ledger and drew two...
SwimmingEleven Hundredths From the Record: Tatjana Smith's Return and a Breaststroke Discipline Standing on One WomanThe touchpad at the 50 read 30.09. The clock stopped at 1:04.00. Three number...
SwimmingChina's 30 Golds Held in the Pool, but Who Will Count the Gap from 62 to 54When the last final of the last night touched the wall, two columns were stil...
SwimmingTatjana Smith's Comeback: 29.50 Seconds, a Brand-New Olympic Event, and an Empty Data ColumnHook: One Time, Many Empty Cells The most quoted figure in the September 25...
SwimmingA Night of Seven Golds and Unverified Records: The Asian Games Times Nobody Has RatifiedThe dateline reads Tokyo, Friday, September 25 — but no year is given, and...
Swimming3:41.28 and 2:04.83: The Two Numbers That Have Not Entered the Ledger YetThe rain had just stopped in Rangpur when the clock crossed half past midnigh...
SwimmingTwo MVPs and One Empty Lane: Reading CSL Match 2 Against the Delta's Swimming LedgerPast one in the morning in Chattogram, I opened a laptop on the balcony and...
SwimmingA 'Seven-Gold' Night in the Swimming Ledger: China's Zhang Zhanshuo, Japan's Teen Shin Ohashi, and the Records That Need VerificationThe Anomaly First I have watched swimming data for years. In my experience, a...
SwimmingStanford's Ledger: 0.17 Seconds, an Unfinished Book, and Swimming's Real PipelineI still think about the outdoor 50m complex at Mirpur. My first swimming byli...
SwimmingTatjana Smith in the Short-Course Mirror: 0.11 Seconds and South Africa's Narrow PillarIn December 2026, at the open-air 50m complex in Mirpur, I stood with a print...
SwimmingSame Golds, Eight Fewer Medals: China's Depth Ledger at the 2026 Asian Games SwimmingFour Numbers, One Gap Last night I turned a page in my ledger and drew two...
SwimmingEleven Hundredths From the Record: Tatjana Smith's Return and a Breaststroke Discipline Standing on One WomanThe touchpad at the 50 read 30.09. The clock stopped at 1:04.00. Three number...
SwimmingChina's 30 Golds Held in the Pool, but Who Will Count the Gap from 62 to 54When the last final of the last night touched the wall, two columns were stil...
SwimmingTatjana Smith's Comeback: 29.50 Seconds, a Brand-New Olympic Event, and an Empty Data ColumnHook: One Time, Many Empty Cells The most quoted figure in the September 25...