Swimming
Same 30 Golds, Eight Fewer Medals: The Asian Games Swimming Table That Skips the Story
The Ledger Inside the Pool: What Claire Curzan and Thomas Heilman's MVP Awards Leave Unsaid
October 2026's Short-Course Calendar: One Wrong Date, Three Continents, and Bangladesh's Absence
An MVP Is a Receipt: From Mirpur's Medal Ledger to Curzan and Heilman's League Award
Fear of the 'New Michael Phelps': Is the Rise of Japanese Stars at ASIAD a Real Threat to Leon Marchand?
SwimmingSame 30 Golds, Eight Fewer Medals: The Asian Games Swimming Table That Skips the StoryAt the outdoor 50m complex in Mirpur my own best time was 26.4 seconds,...
SwimmingThe Ledger Inside the Pool: What Claire Curzan and Thomas Heilman's MVP Awards Leave UnsaidLong after the final relay of CSL Match 2 finishes, the loudest sounds on the...
SwimmingOctober 2026's Short-Course Calendar: One Wrong Date, Three Continents, and Bangladesh's AbsenceLast month I opened my hand-kept calendar ledger, because the October 2026...
SwimmingAn MVP Is a Receipt: From Mirpur's Medal Ledger to Curzan and Heilman's League AwardThe cement outside the Mirpur Swimming Complex gets so hot at midday that...
SwimmingFear of the 'New Michael Phelps': Is the Rise of Japanese Stars at ASIAD a Real Threat to Leon Marchand?Leon Marchand cemented his status as the 'new Michael Phelps' with four Olymp...
SwimmingTwo Shoulders, Two Generations: What the Curzan–Heilman MVP Actually MeasuresTwo in the Morning in Rangpur: What I Was Watching, and What Wasn't Being Sho...
Swimming30 Golds, 54 Medals: I Counted the 2026 Asian Games Swimming Table, and One Name Didn't MatchFifty-four. The first thing I did with the numbers was count them, not read...
SwimmingCSL Match 1: Shackell's Butterfly, Wigginton's Out-Touch, and the Arithmetic of 700 SpectatorsIn the final lap of the 500-yard freestyle, two hands reached for the same...
SwimmingThe Ledger Inside the Pool: What Claire Curzan and Thomas Heilman's MVP Awards Leave UnsaidLong after the final relay of CSL Match 2 finishes, the loudest sounds on the...
SwimmingOctober 2026's Short-Course Calendar: One Wrong Date, Three Continents, and Bangladesh's AbsenceLast month I opened my hand-kept calendar ledger, because the October 2026...
SwimmingAn MVP Is a Receipt: From Mirpur's Medal Ledger to Curzan and Heilman's League AwardThe cement outside the Mirpur Swimming Complex gets so hot at midday that...
SwimmingFear of the 'New Michael Phelps': Is the Rise of Japanese Stars at ASIAD a Real Threat to Leon Marchand?Leon Marchand cemented his status as the 'new Michael Phelps' with four Olymp...
SwimmingTwo Shoulders, Two Generations: What the Curzan–Heilman MVP Actually MeasuresTwo in the Morning in Rangpur: What I Was Watching, and What Wasn't Being Sho...
Swimming30 Golds, 54 Medals: I Counted the 2026 Asian Games Swimming Table, and One Name Didn't MatchFifty-four. The first thing I did with the numbers was count them, not read...
SwimmingCSL Match 1: Shackell's Butterfly, Wigginton's Out-Touch, and the Arithmetic of 700 SpectatorsIn the final lap of the 500-yard freestyle, two hands reached for the same...