Swimming
Six 'World Records' Before Beijing: What the American Swimming Trials Record Flood Actually Says — and What It Hides
2:01.66: Three Hundredths From the World Record, but the Real Story Lies Elsewhere
Two Winners in One 100 Breast, and Six Relays Hiding the Real Question
Baku World Cup Day 1: The Arithmetic of the Kornev–McEvoy 50 Free Duel, and the Questions the Arithmetic Cannot Close
Zero Data in Swimming Analysis: Verification Must Come Before ResultsNo final was held at Mirpur's 50-metre pool. No lane time appeared, no swimme...
Six 'World Records' Before Beijing: What the American Swimming Trials Record Flood Actually Says — and What It HidesSix world records, one four-day trials meet. Katie Douglass's 22.75 seconds i...
Austin Conover: From Futures Finalist to a Cornerstone of Saint Mary's Inaugural SeasonAmerican collegiate swimming's recruiting cycle has produced another name wor...
Open Water World Cup Enters a Two-Year Era: Johnson's Dominance, an Open Men's Race and Signs of Tactical ChangeThe Open Water Swimming World Cup 2026/27 season begins on 6 November. For th...
Three Questions Behind Every Swimming Result: Which Pool, Which Era, Which StageA time flashing on the scoreboard usually settles the argument for most fans:...
No Report Without Data: Professional Verification Standards for Swimming ResultsA sports report is judged by its reliability, not its emotion. In a...
Bangladesh's Swimming Ledger Is Written in Drownings, Not MedalsBangladesh's biggest swimming number is not 24.5 seconds. It is one. One...
The Empty Cell, the Full River: The Times Nobody Writes Down in Bangladesh SwimmingIn 2026 I stood on the Dhaleshwari riverbank at noon with a borrowed DSLR and...
The Swimming Medal Table Is a Diagnosis: Navy, One Outdoor Pool, and a Nation of 170 MillionA December dawn at the Mirpur Swimming Complex. Fog sits so thick on the...
2:01.66: Three Hundredths From the World Record, but the Real Story Lies ElsewhereKate Douglass touched the wall in 2 minutes 01.66 seconds in the 200-metre...
Not 53.04 — It Is 3.88: Gretchen Walsh's Front-Half Bet and an Incomplete DatasetGretchen Walsh touched the wall in 53.04 seconds in the 100m butterfly — shor...
54.87: China Built a Record, Not an Asian Butterfly BoomOn the second turn of a 25-metre pool in Beijing the clock read 25.66, and th...
The Audit of an Empty Cell: In Bangladesh Swimming, the Missing Data Is the ResultI opened a spreadsheet in the winter. Sixteen columns, more than two hundred...
SMU's 2028 Commitment: The 11.14-Second Delta Behind Karly WhiteheadOn the Summer Junior Nationals result sheet, two times sit beside the same...
The Empty Gallery at Mirpur and Swimming's Timekeeping: The Numbers That Stay Off the Pool DeckThe gallery at the outdoor 50m pool in Mirpur was nearly empty that December...
Two Winners in One 100 Breast, and Six Relays Hiding the Real Question1:10.04. And 1:02.68. Same event, the girls' 100 breaststroke. Same meet, the...
The Ledger With No Numbers In ItA folded results sheet beside the open-air 50-metre pool in Mirpur. The year...
The Truth Beyond the Pool: Emma Redman's 2:09.80 and Bangladesh's Swimming RealityStanding at the edge of a pool, I have always smelled the water first and ask...
Six 'World Records' Before Beijing: What the American Swimming Trials Record Flood Actually Says — and What It HidesSix world records, one four-day trials meet. Katie Douglass's 22.75 seconds i...
Austin Conover: From Futures Finalist to a Cornerstone of Saint Mary's Inaugural SeasonAmerican collegiate swimming's recruiting cycle has produced another name wor...
Open Water World Cup Enters a Two-Year Era: Johnson's Dominance, an Open Men's Race and Signs of Tactical ChangeThe Open Water Swimming World Cup 2026/27 season begins on 6 November. For th...
Three Questions Behind Every Swimming Result: Which Pool, Which Era, Which StageA time flashing on the scoreboard usually settles the argument for most fans:...
No Report Without Data: Professional Verification Standards for Swimming ResultsA sports report is judged by its reliability, not its emotion. In a...
Bangladesh's Swimming Ledger Is Written in Drownings, Not MedalsBangladesh's biggest swimming number is not 24.5 seconds. It is one. One...
The Empty Cell, the Full River: The Times Nobody Writes Down in Bangladesh SwimmingIn 2026 I stood on the Dhaleshwari riverbank at noon with a borrowed DSLR and...
The Swimming Medal Table Is a Diagnosis: Navy, One Outdoor Pool, and a Nation of 170 MillionA December dawn at the Mirpur Swimming Complex. Fog sits so thick on the...
2:01.66: Three Hundredths From the World Record, but the Real Story Lies ElsewhereKate Douglass touched the wall in 2 minutes 01.66 seconds in the 200-metre...
Not 53.04 — It Is 3.88: Gretchen Walsh's Front-Half Bet and an Incomplete DatasetGretchen Walsh touched the wall in 53.04 seconds in the 100m butterfly — shor...
54.87: China Built a Record, Not an Asian Butterfly BoomOn the second turn of a 25-metre pool in Beijing the clock read 25.66, and th...
The Audit of an Empty Cell: In Bangladesh Swimming, the Missing Data Is the ResultI opened a spreadsheet in the winter. Sixteen columns, more than two hundred...
SMU's 2028 Commitment: The 11.14-Second Delta Behind Karly WhiteheadOn the Summer Junior Nationals result sheet, two times sit beside the same...
The Empty Gallery at Mirpur and Swimming's Timekeeping: The Numbers That Stay Off the Pool DeckThe gallery at the outdoor 50m pool in Mirpur was nearly empty that December...
Two Winners in One 100 Breast, and Six Relays Hiding the Real Question1:10.04. And 1:02.68. Same event, the girls' 100 breaststroke. Same meet, the...
The Ledger With No Numbers In ItA folded results sheet beside the open-air 50-metre pool in Mirpur. The year...
The Truth Beyond the Pool: Emma Redman's 2:09.80 and Bangladesh's Swimming RealityStanding at the edge of a pool, I have always smelled the water first and ask...