Swimming
Short-Course Records Slower Than Her Long-Course Best: The Numbers Behind Agostina Hein's Post-Surgery Run4:32.73. The number lit up the board at the San Luis pool in Argentina,...
Vietnamese Swimming After Ánh Viên: The Pipeline Skeleton Seen Through Split-DataVIETNAMESE SWIMMING AFTER ÁNH VIÊN: THE PIPELINE SKELETON SEEN THROUGH...
The World Swimming Map After Paris 2026: Speed Is Never a Single VariableLéon Marchand touched the wall in the men's 400m individual medley final at t...
Duke Opens 2026-2027 Season with a Sweep of DavidsonDuke's swimming and diving program opened its 2026-2027 NCAA season with a du...
Vietnamese Women's Swimming in 2026: The Gap Left After Ánh Viên Stepped AwayIn May 2026, in Phnom Penh, I sat in the press area of SEA Games 32 and...
CSL Match 2 and the Hidden Structure of a US College Swimming LeagueI opened the results sheet and found not a single time. Virginia, NC State,...
CSL Match 2: Curzan, Heilman and the Load Equation Behind Two MVP AwardsOn the second night of College Swimming League competition, Claire Curzan...
Silk Road Swimming World Cup 2026: The $1.2 Million Wild-Card and the Endurance Puzzle Before BeijingEvery Swimming World Cup, people look at the result table; I look at the ten...
2026 Asian Games: China Nearly Sweeps Gold, But the Most Important Signal Belongs to JapanThe electronic scoreboard from the opening session carried nine lines bearing...
Swimming and the Data Voids: From Rome 2026 to the Empty Pool of TokyoSummer 2026, at the Foro Italico in Rome, a scoreboard lit up with a string o...
An Empty Column on the Lane Line: Why Sports Analysis Is Not Allowed to GuessBeneath the surface, the 15-metre line is the last boundary a swimmer may cro...
Nine Layers of Data Behind a 50-Second SwimIn football, I can rewind the same passage of play twelve times, measure how...
Lizzy Johnson Commits to Florida State: 23.17, 1:49.61 and the 2028 Sprint Group MathTwo in the morning in Nagoya, the coffee already cold, and I was rewinding...
The Empty Tokyo Pool and the Titmus–Ledecky 400m Freestyle EquationOn 26 July 2026, the Tokyo Aquatics Centre had no spectators. The pandemic ha...
WADA's 2026 Annual Report: Testing Samples Rise, But the Curve Is CoolingWADA'S 2026 ANNUAL REPORT: TESTING SAMPLES RISE, BUT THE CURVE IS COOLING One...
Vietnamese Swimming 2026: The Post-Anh Vien Void, Schedule Load and the Generational Handover ProblemOpening: the four percent nobody writes about In the final heat of the men's...
Reading a Swim by the Numbers: Splits, Stroke Rate and the World-Record LineFour minutes after the last lane goes flat, a PDF appears on the press-room...
700 Free Hours: How the 2026 Asian Games Chose Audience Over PaywallIn Los Angeles, to watch the swimming prelims at the 2026 Asian Games in...

