Swimming
Kim Woomin's Injury and South Korea's Royal Fall in Asian Swimming
A Turkish Junior Breaststroker to SMU: Times Outside the Cutoff, Questions Inside the Ledger
Asiad 20 Diary, September 22: Shooting Results Cancelled, and Five Names Buried Under a Swimming Schedule Sheet
Yu Zidi's 4:28.56 — The Record That Doesn't Ring on Mirpur's Clock
Back to the Pool from the Courtroom: The NCAA Fifth-Year Ruling and the Unwritten Ledger of Retaining Talent
Yu Zidi's 4:28.56 — The Record That Doesn't Ring on Mirpur's ClockI watched the clock on a phone screen from a rooftop in Rajshahi. Prelims at...
Back to the Pool from the Courtroom: The NCAA Fifth-Year Ruling and the Unwritten Ledger of Retaining TalentI kept the lane logbook long after the stopwatch stopped mattering on that...
Yu Zidi at ASIAD 2026: Three Golds, Two Records and a 0.4-Second Gap — Where the Record Stops, the Real Question StartsThe 200m individual medley final on 21 September in Japan was still undecided...
Kim Woomin's Injury and South Korea's Royal Fall in Asian SwimmingKim Woomin's injury and South Korea's royal fall in Asian swimming - A deep...
Alabama Got the Yes, the Paperwork Still Doesn't Exist — Two Years of Gap in a Swimming NotebookI folded the heat sheet from the Illinois high school state 200-yard freestyl...
A Turkish Junior Breaststroker to SMU: Times Outside the Cutoff, Questions Inside the LedgerAt the 2026 ACC Championships the men's 100 breaststroke cutoff for a second...
4:28.56 — Thirteen-Year-Old Yu Zidi, a Record of 0.13 Seconds, and the Ledger on Our Own ClockDay four, Nagoya. At two in the afternoon in Barishal, the tea on my table wa...
59.38 Versus 1:00.59 — Joice Otero Rocha's LSU Commitment and the Conversion LedgerThe bronze-medal time in the August final was 59.73 seconds. In May, at...
Audit the Date Before Printing 2:06.10: The Ledger on Yu Zidi's Record ClaimThere is a rule taped to my desk. Before any number goes to print, it needs t...
Asiad 20 Diary, September 22: Shooting Results Cancelled, and Five Names Buried Under a Swimming Schedule Sheet8:00 a.m. Women's 100m freestyle heats. 8:12 a.m. Men's 400m individual medle...
Short-Course Turns, Long-Course Water: Abi Paton's NC State Commitment and Our Empty LedgerA paper notebook lives in my bag, and it carries two kinds of writing side by...