Swimming
SwimmingEmptiness Is Also Data: The Block No One Can Forge in Swimming's Ledger2026-10-10I write about swimming, and the least pleasant part of my work is learning to...
SwimmingNobody Owns the Silver Step: The 2027 NCAA No. 2 Poll and Bangladesh's Missing Pipeline2026-10-04Five in the morning in Chattogram. The fog still sat heavy on the Karnaphuli,...
SwimmingThe New Phelps Is Scared: Marchand, Japan's Teen Cluster, and the Data Problem Inside the IM Succession Story2026-09-26Leon Marchand spent the swimming evening of the 2026 Asian Games in the stand...
SwimmingThe Relay Leg the Scoreboard Never Counted: Claire Curzan, Thomas Heilman and a Recount of CSL Match 2's MVP Metric2026-09-26Hook In the final relay of Day Two at CSL Match 2, there was a leg that has n...
Four Medals in Dakar and the Empty Lanes of Mirpur: Age, Numbers and Expectations at the Youth Olympic SwimmingNovember 6, 2026. The final swimming session in Dakar was winding down, and o...
When a Short-Course Lifetime Best Stops at the Roundabout: Zombori's 1:54.54 and Swimming's Old Ledger ErrorThe old outdoor 50-metre pool in Mirpur is shut, and in Budapest someone is...
26 Wins in a Short-Course Dual: What the Scoreboard Hides and the Conversion RevealsThe sheet next to the 200m butterfly result reads 1:51.44. Nobody argues with...
The Shoulder Nobody Wrote Down at Mirpur's Outdoor Fifty-Metre PoolI was standing on the deck of the outdoor fifty-metre pool in Mirpur on a...
Brisbane 2032 CEO Cindy Hook Steps Down: The Olympic Delivery Ledger Changes HandsBrisbane 2032 Olympic organizing committee CEO Cindy Hook is stepping down....
Japan's On-Fire Tomoyuki Matsushita Puts Up SCM 200 IM Asian RecordWhen Tomoyuki Matsushita touched the pad at 1:50.42 in the 200m individual...
From Louisville to Berkeley: The Sixth Name and the Weight of One ClassAn NCAA recruiting announcement is never a field report. It is a draft of a...
Emptiness Is Also Data: The Block No One Can Forge in Swimming's LedgerI write about swimming, and the least pleasant part of my work is learning to...
The Ledger of Zero: The Data Bangladeshi Swimming Never Learned to WriteFive in the morning. On the Shitalakshya ghat the mist has not yet melted int...
Nobody Owns the Silver Step: The 2027 NCAA No. 2 Poll and Bangladesh's Missing PipelineFive in the morning in Chattogram. The fog still sat heavy on the Karnaphuli,...
2:23.27 in the Heats, 2:28.22 for Gold: The Final That Was 4.95 Seconds Slower Than the MorningPietermaritzburg, day three of the 2026 South African Short Course...
The New Phelps Is Scared: Marchand, Japan's Teen Cluster, and the Data Problem Inside the IM Succession StoryLeon Marchand spent the swimming evening of the 2026 Asian Games in the stand...
Skins Races, Jackpots and an Empty Results Sheet: Notes From the College Swimming League's First MatchThe rule in a skins race stops right there: not the clock, the neighbour. Fif...
When a Short-Course Lifetime Best Stops at the Roundabout: Zombori's 1:54.54 and Swimming's Old Ledger ErrorThe old outdoor 50-metre pool in Mirpur is shut, and in Budapest someone is...
26 Wins in a Short-Course Dual: What the Scoreboard Hides and the Conversion RevealsThe sheet next to the 200m butterfly result reads 1:51.44. Nobody argues with...
The Shoulder Nobody Wrote Down at Mirpur's Outdoor Fifty-Metre PoolI was standing on the deck of the outdoor fifty-metre pool in Mirpur on a...
Brisbane 2032 CEO Cindy Hook Steps Down: The Olympic Delivery Ledger Changes HandsBrisbane 2032 Olympic organizing committee CEO Cindy Hook is stepping down....
Japan's On-Fire Tomoyuki Matsushita Puts Up SCM 200 IM Asian RecordWhen Tomoyuki Matsushita touched the pad at 1:50.42 in the 200m individual...
From Louisville to Berkeley: The Sixth Name and the Weight of One ClassAn NCAA recruiting announcement is never a field report. It is a draft of a...
Emptiness Is Also Data: The Block No One Can Forge in Swimming's LedgerI write about swimming, and the least pleasant part of my work is learning to...
The Ledger of Zero: The Data Bangladeshi Swimming Never Learned to WriteFive in the morning. On the Shitalakshya ghat the mist has not yet melted int...
Nobody Owns the Silver Step: The 2027 NCAA No. 2 Poll and Bangladesh's Missing PipelineFive in the morning in Chattogram. The fog still sat heavy on the Karnaphuli,...
2:23.27 in the Heats, 2:28.22 for Gold: The Final That Was 4.95 Seconds Slower Than the MorningPietermaritzburg, day three of the 2026 South African Short Course...
The New Phelps Is Scared: Marchand, Japan's Teen Cluster, and the Data Problem Inside the IM Succession StoryLeon Marchand spent the swimming evening of the 2026 Asian Games in the stand...
Skins Races, Jackpots and an Empty Results Sheet: Notes From the College Swimming League's First MatchThe rule in a skins race stops right there: not the clock, the neighbour. Fif...