Swimming
An Injunction for a Fifth Year: Indiana's Two Swimmers and the Shuttered Gate at Mirpur
Yu Zidi: 2:06.10 at Thirteen — And Four Decades in Our Own Ledger
Asian Games Day Two: Beside Haughey and Ho's Medals, Korea's Speed and Three Questions for Us
When the Last 50 Meters Reads 26.85: Teenager Kojima, Beaten Matsushita, and One Nation's Hidden Swimming Pipeline
1:43.49 and After: Zhang Zhanshuo's Asian Record, the Forgotten 1:43.92, and Dhaka's Silent ScoresheetAt the Tokyo final the clock on the third 50 read 26.75. The number was not...
The Ledger Behind 23.19: A Record Fell in the Asian Games 50m Butterfly, But the Real Number Is 22.91The number glowing on the timing board after the heat was 23.19. The Asian...
An Injunction for a Fifth Year: Indiana's Two Swimmers and the Shuttered Gate at MirpurLast September I was in Chattogram cutting old footage — an NGO...
55.03 Seconds and the Six-Hour Drive: Cal's Backstroke Factory and the Empty Lane at MirpurJuly 2026. The Syed Nazrul Islam National Swimming Complex at Mirpur. Monsoon...
A Shoulder's Inheritance: Cal's 2028 Class, Grant Bellin, and the Unanswered Long-Course QuestionIn November 2026 I drove 300 kilometres from Rangpur to the open-air Mirpur...
The Five-Million-Dollar Ceiling and Swimming's Silent LedgerTwo in the morning in Chattogram. A cup of tea going cold beside me, a phone ...
Yu Zidi: 2:06.10 at Thirteen — And Four Decades in Our Own LedgerSeptember 2026, the Asian Games swimming basin. When the digital board stoppe...
2026 Asian Games: Hong Kong's 4×100m Freestyle Relay - Data Analysis and Strategic AssessmentAnalysis of Hong Kong's Women's 4×100m Freestyle Relay at 2026 Asian Games:...
Cal's 2028 Class Starts With Bellin: The Shoulder That 55.03 Never MentionsLast week I read Berkeley's recruiting announcement and checked the calendar...
Last Place Was the Real Data Point: Kim Woomin's Shoulder, an Empty Time Sheet, and Friday's 400mLAST PLACE IN A 1500M FINAL. For a 25-year-old Olympic medallist, that line i...
55.68 and 1:06.50 — One Breaststroker, Two ClocksIn May, at the California Interscholastic Federation state championship, a...
Court Grants Owen McDonald and Zalan Sarkany Fifth Year of NCAA Eligibility — Speed Still UnprovenA judge has granted Owen McDonald and Zalan Sarkany a fifth year of NCAA...
Asian Games Day Two: Beside Haughey and Ho's Medals, Korea's Speed and Three Questions for UsHook: What Lives Inside a 21.76 It was around two in the morning on a veranda...
When the Last 50 Meters Reads 26.85: Teenager Kojima, Beaten Matsushita, and One Nation's Hidden Swimming PipelineMy notebook's first page has a stopwatch drawn on it, and beneath it, in bull...
The Empty Lines in a Heat Sheet: How Vietnam's Asiad 20 Swimming Entries Read Like a Policy FileI have counted medals in Mirpur because the applause there felt rented. So I...
The Ledger Behind 23.19: A Record Fell in the Asian Games 50m Butterfly, But the Real Number Is 22.91The number glowing on the timing board after the heat was 23.19. The Asian...
An Injunction for a Fifth Year: Indiana's Two Swimmers and the Shuttered Gate at MirpurLast September I was in Chattogram cutting old footage — an NGO...
55.03 Seconds and the Six-Hour Drive: Cal's Backstroke Factory and the Empty Lane at MirpurJuly 2026. The Syed Nazrul Islam National Swimming Complex at Mirpur. Monsoon...
A Shoulder's Inheritance: Cal's 2028 Class, Grant Bellin, and the Unanswered Long-Course QuestionIn November 2026 I drove 300 kilometres from Rangpur to the open-air Mirpur...
The Five-Million-Dollar Ceiling and Swimming's Silent LedgerTwo in the morning in Chattogram. A cup of tea going cold beside me, a phone ...
Yu Zidi: 2:06.10 at Thirteen — And Four Decades in Our Own LedgerSeptember 2026, the Asian Games swimming basin. When the digital board stoppe...
2026 Asian Games: Hong Kong's 4×100m Freestyle Relay - Data Analysis and Strategic AssessmentAnalysis of Hong Kong's Women's 4×100m Freestyle Relay at 2026 Asian Games:...
Cal's 2028 Class Starts With Bellin: The Shoulder That 55.03 Never MentionsLast week I read Berkeley's recruiting announcement and checked the calendar...
Last Place Was the Real Data Point: Kim Woomin's Shoulder, an Empty Time Sheet, and Friday's 400mLAST PLACE IN A 1500M FINAL. For a 25-year-old Olympic medallist, that line i...
55.68 and 1:06.50 — One Breaststroker, Two ClocksIn May, at the California Interscholastic Federation state championship, a...
Court Grants Owen McDonald and Zalan Sarkany Fifth Year of NCAA Eligibility — Speed Still UnprovenA judge has granted Owen McDonald and Zalan Sarkany a fifth year of NCAA...
Asian Games Day Two: Beside Haughey and Ho's Medals, Korea's Speed and Three Questions for UsHook: What Lives Inside a 21.76 It was around two in the morning on a veranda...
When the Last 50 Meters Reads 26.85: Teenager Kojima, Beaten Matsushita, and One Nation's Hidden Swimming PipelineMy notebook's first page has a stopwatch drawn on it, and beneath it, in bull...
The Empty Lines in a Heat Sheet: How Vietnam's Asiad 20 Swimming Entries Read Like a Policy FileI have counted medals in Mirpur because the applause there felt rented. So I...