Swimming
One Length, Four Rounds: How World Aquatics Built the 50m Olympic Gateway2026-10-22At the Tianhe district training pool in Guangzhou, on Saturday mornings I sta...
2027 World Cup and the 50m Olympic Pathway: When World Aquatics Builds Its Own Narrow Gate2026-10-22The first number isn't a time. It's a gap: 830 athlete quota places for LA28,...
Steenbergen Lowers European 200m Freestyle Short-Course Record: The Speed Came From the Middle 1002026-10-16The middle 100 of Marrit Steenbergen at the World Cup final leg in Astana was...
The Stars and Outfits at the 2026 Golden Goggles: An Awards Night Is Not Performance Evidence2026-09-29Denver, one night in September, flashbulbs fired endlessly at the red carpet....
The $5 Million Cap and the Real Blind Spot of American College Swimming2026-09-24Three procedural votes in the United States Senate closed at 74-24, 77-22 and...
IOC closes 12 commissions, keeps 19: swimming loses its standing seat on four front-line topicsTwelve commissions closed. Nineteen kept. Four of the closed bodies carry nam...
Sam Short's 2.91 Seconds Live in the Turns, Not in the LungsThe scoreboard at Australia's short course national championships showed thre...
The Nagoya Case: An Allegation, an Early Flight Home, and Indian Para-Sport's Evidence GapTuesday morning in Nagoya On Tuesday morning, in a hotel in Nagoya, an offici...
Before Praising a Swim, Ask How Long the Pool IsIt was 4:40 in the morning, and the water in the Nha Trang pool was cold enou...
One Length, Four Rounds: How World Aquatics Built the 50m Olympic GatewayAt the Tianhe district training pool in Guangzhou, on Saturday mornings I sta...
The Empty Cell in Vietnam's Swimming Results TableAt the men's 100m freestyle final of a national championship, the electronic...
2027 World Cup and the 50m Olympic Pathway: When World Aquatics Builds Its Own Narrow GateThe first number isn't a time. It's a gap: 830 athlete quota places for LA28,...
The Data Failure Behind Swimming Analysis: When the Nine-Dimension Framework Stops Being a Tool and Starts Being a MaskThere is one number rarely discussed in sports analysis circles: zero. Not ze...
Before the Scoreboard Lights Up: Nine Layers of a Vietnamese LaneAt four-fifty in the morning the pool at a training centre in central Vietnam...
Emma Redman breaks 2:10: what the mid-season ranking does not sayThe board on the wall clicked to 2:09.80. The Virginia team section rose almo...
When the Split Table Never Arrives: A Zero-Data Swimming Analysis and the Cost of Filling the GapAt two in the morning in Melbourne, I open the results file sent back by the...
The Line Between Swimming Analysis and GuessworkThe night before a 200m individual medley final, I sat alone with my tracking...
