Swimming
The 23.19 Ledger: The 0.28 Seconds Between an Asian Games Record and an Asian Record
One Record, Two Numbers: How Zhang Zhanshuo's 1:43.49 Survived the Arithmetic
The Fifth-Year Ruling: Indiana's Two Swimmers, the NCAA's Draft Bylaw, and That Dhaka Folder
1:43.49 — From a Tokyo Lane to Mirpur's Open-Air Pool
The Fifth-Year Ruling: A 14 September Deadline and the Weight of Indiana's 69.5 Points
SwimmingThe Fifth-Year Ruling: Indiana's Two Swimmers, the NCAA's Draft Bylaw, and That Dhaka FolderI went looking for the river and found a courtroom instead. September 2026. I...
Swimming1:43.49 — From a Tokyo Lane to Mirpur's Open-Air PoolIn Tokyo the clock stopped at 25.96 seconds for the closing 50 metres. In...
SwimmingThe 23.19 Ledger: The 0.28 Seconds Between an Asian Games Record and an Asian Record10 a.m. prelims. Long course, eight lanes, five heats. Two minutes after the...
SwimmingOne Record, Two Numbers: How Zhang Zhanshuo's 1:43.49 Survived the ArithmeticThe first job was not the record. It was the addition. The Tokyo sheet carrie...
SwimmingThe Fifth-Year Ruling: A 14 September Deadline and the Weight of Indiana's 69.5 PointsOn 14 September 2026, a temporary restraining order expired. Nobody in...
SwimmingOne Hundred and Fifty Minutes Against Forty Deaths a Day: What Newham's Learn-to-Swim Block Shows Bangladesh780 children. Five days, 30 minutes each. One hundred and fifty minutes in...
Swimming780 Children, 150 Minutes, One Back Float: How Newham's Experiment Is Bigger Than a Medal, and Smaller Than a SwimOne hundred and fifty minutes. That is the whole of it. Five days, thirty...
SwimmingA Thirteen-Year-Old's 2:06.10: The Record That Hasn't Reached the Registry YetThirteen years old. Two minutes six point one zero seconds — 2:06.10. An Asia...
SwimmingThe Fifth Season: Indiana’s 69.5 Points and a Single Page of Court OrderHook: 69.5 Booked into a Ledger On the score sheet of the 2026 NCAA...
SwimmingZero Point Four: Yu Zidi, 13, and Swimming's Most Dangerous QuestionHook December 2026. On the outdoor 50m pool in Mirpur the fog came down so...
SwimmingPeter Tonkin Retires After 55 Years: From Tokyo 2026 Relay Bronze to Indigenous Water-Safety WorkMy first lesson in swimming did not arrive through a medal table. It arrived...
Swimming1:43.49 — From a Tokyo Lane to Mirpur's Open-Air PoolIn Tokyo the clock stopped at 25.96 seconds for the closing 50 metres. In...
SwimmingThe 23.19 Ledger: The 0.28 Seconds Between an Asian Games Record and an Asian Record10 a.m. prelims. Long course, eight lanes, five heats. Two minutes after the...
SwimmingOne Record, Two Numbers: How Zhang Zhanshuo's 1:43.49 Survived the ArithmeticThe first job was not the record. It was the addition. The Tokyo sheet carrie...
SwimmingThe Fifth-Year Ruling: A 14 September Deadline and the Weight of Indiana's 69.5 PointsOn 14 September 2026, a temporary restraining order expired. Nobody in...
SwimmingOne Hundred and Fifty Minutes Against Forty Deaths a Day: What Newham's Learn-to-Swim Block Shows Bangladesh780 children. Five days, 30 minutes each. One hundred and fifty minutes in...
Swimming780 Children, 150 Minutes, One Back Float: How Newham's Experiment Is Bigger Than a Medal, and Smaller Than a SwimOne hundred and fifty minutes. That is the whole of it. Five days, thirty...
SwimmingA Thirteen-Year-Old's 2:06.10: The Record That Hasn't Reached the Registry YetThirteen years old. Two minutes six point one zero seconds — 2:06.10. An Asia...
SwimmingThe Fifth Season: Indiana’s 69.5 Points and a Single Page of Court OrderHook: 69.5 Booked into a Ledger On the score sheet of the 2026 NCAA...
SwimmingZero Point Four: Yu Zidi, 13, and Swimming's Most Dangerous QuestionHook December 2026. On the outdoor 50m pool in Mirpur the fog came down so...
SwimmingPeter Tonkin Retires After 55 Years: From Tokyo 2026 Relay Bronze to Indigenous Water-Safety WorkMy first lesson in swimming did not arrive through a medal table. It arrived...