Swimming
College Swimming League Match 5: Four NCAA Top-10 Programs and the Short-Course Test2026-10-17On the scoreboard of an American college pool, the words "Match 5" appeared...
Seven Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds Swimming Alone: Jaouadi and the Rest That Costs More Than a Medal2026-10-17At Charlottesville, the pool at the University of Virginia has eight lanes, b...
The Lane With No Swimmer: When Swimming Data Keeps Only a Label2026-10-15A swim-meet data file came back from the collection system with exactly one...
Confessions of a Football Analyst: When Data Becomes a Lie2026-10-06I once sat in a press room in Kazan in 2026, watched Mbappé run at 37 km/h an...
Yu Yiting's 2:02.80: The Asian Record in the 200m IM and the Unresolved Breaststroke Problem2026-10-04When the scoreboard flashed 2:02.80, my first reaction was not admiration. It...
Anatomy of a swim: six variables to verify before trusting a timeIn July 2026, in Rome, the world swimming championships closed with 43 world...
World Cup 2026 Stop #3 in Astana: Six Names, One Ice Rink and a Central Asian Expansion AxisThree stops. Three activities away from the pool. Not a single split time...
23.72 Seconds and Eight Months of Silence: When the Pool Clock Measures a Life AgainThere is a number I have logged in my tracking notebook for eight years now,...
College Swimming League Match 5: Four NCAA Top-10 Programs and the Short-Course TestOn the scoreboard of an American college pool, the words "Match 5" appeared...
When the Timing Board Returns Nothing: The Limits of Writing Swimming With DataIn March 2026, the pools in Melbourne closed, and I sat in the biomechanics...
Reading the Pool: Nine Layers of Analysis Behind a Single LaneReading the Pool: Nine Layers of Analysis Behind a Single Lane There is a...
Seven Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds Swimming Alone: Jaouadi and the Rest That Costs More Than a MedalAt Charlottesville, the pool at the University of Virginia has eight lanes, b...
Reading World Swimming Through the Lens of Data: Which Records Are Real, Which Are Ghosts?In July 2026, at the Foro Italico in Rome, the World Aquatics Championships s...
The Lane With No Swimmer: When Swimming Data Keeps Only a LabelA swim-meet data file came back from the collection system with exactly one...
Vietnam's Swimming Lanes After Anh Vien: Decoding the Data Gap Beneath the SurfaceIn the summer of 2026, on the stands of an indoor pool at a Southeast Asian...
Grace Higdon Commits to William & Mary: Deep Analysis of the Breaststroke Specialist's RecruitmentIn the context of American collegiate swimming entering the final stretch of...
From a Shoulder Injury to an Ivy League Spot: The Journey of a BreaststrokerAt the start of her freshman year of high school, her right arm could not lif...
Inside Swimming's Data Crisis: When the 9-Dimension Analysis Returns EmptyThere's a moment in data analysis that I call "the silent morning." It's when...
Decoding the Swimming Data Void: When the Post-2026 Era Forces Sports Writers to Rethink StrategyPeople watch the goal; I watch the ten passes before it. In the deep blue wat...
Dance Beneath the Surface: The Power Map of World Swimming Between Two Olympic CyclesThe sound of water breaking on the surface of a pool is never as loud as the...
Decoding Pan Zhanle's 46.40: When Speed in the Pool Is an Entire System of EquationsThe Moment the Scoreboard Could Not Keep Up On the night of July 31, 2026, at...
Reef McMeeking climbs to No. 1 this season in Boys' 15-16 100 Breast SCY at LBHS Patriot InvitationalWhen Reef McMeeking's hands touched the wall, the electronic scoreboard at La...
