Swimming
The Women's Lane After Paris: How Every 50-Meter Split Rewrites the Way We Value It
The Empty Report and the Four Filters of Swimming Data
Karly Whitehead commits to SMU: Boerne backstroker chooses ACC
Swimming and the Data Vacuum: Why "Not Assessed" Differs From "No Risk"
830 Spots, Six Events, One Bullet: How LA28 Is Rewriting the 50m Qualification Rule
The Empty Report and the Four Filters of Swimming DataAt three in the morning the package arrived. Nine analytical dimensions, each...
Karly Whitehead commits to SMU: Boerne backstroker chooses ACCKarly Whitehead, a Junior Nationals qualifier, has announced her verbal...
Swimming and the Data Vacuum: Why "Not Assessed" Differs From "No Risk"On the tribune of a competition pool, the first thing I look at is never the...
830 Spots, Six Events, One Bullet: How LA28 Is Rewriting the 50m Qualification RuleOn 15 October 2027, in Berlin, a 50m butterfly swimmer will step onto the...
Yusei Imaizumi's 26.75: A World Junior Record in the 50m Breaststroke and What Lies Beneath the NumberThe pool in Nha Trang at five in the morning has a sound I recognise before I...
LA 2028: Nguyen Bao Chau Reaches the 200m Butterfly Final, but the Split Sheet Tells Another StoryThe final 50 meters of the women's 200m butterfly final at the Los Angeles 20...
Arizona State Women Dominate Northern Arizona 201-99 in NCAA Dual MeetIn a routine annual NCAA women's swimming dual meet, Arizona State demonstrat...
Vietnamese Swimming Through Nine Analytical Lenses: The Data Gap and the Challenge of Sustainable GrowthSwimming has long been regarded as Vietnam's "gold mine" at the Southeast Asi...
Ruling One Day Before Season Opener: McDonald and Sarkany Cleared for Fifth Year30.5 points from Owen McDonald and 39 points from Zalan Sarkany at the 2026...
College Swimming League Pays $25,000 Per Championship School: What Does a $1M Season Actually Buy?College Swimming League has announced it will award $25,000 to each school th...
Veronica Metz, NC State, and the Conversion Problem Between Two PoolsThe day Veronica Metz swam 4:17.65 in the prelims of the women's 400m freesty...
The Women's Lane After Paris: How Every 50-Meter Split Rewrites the Way We Value ItOn lane 4 in Paris, Ariarne Titmus turned at the 200m mark and I knew the rac...
US Proposes 20% Cap on International Swimmers: 31 of 42 Power 4 Men's Teams Already Over the ThresholdOn the Florida men's swimming roster page for the 2026-26 season there are 24...
After Anh Vien, Vietnamese Swimming Learns to Start Over Again5:12 a.m. at the Phu Tho pool. The only trustworthy sound in the arena is wat...
The Lane of the Unknown: Lessons from a School Swimming FiestaWhen I reviewed the short video clip of the Boys Under-14 freestyle relay fin...
Asian Games 2026 and 700 Hours of Free Swimming: Rights, Time Zones, and the People Left Outside the FrameAsian Games 2026 and 700 Hours of Free Swimming: Rights, Time Zones, and the...
WADA Reports 297,965 Samples Tested — and a Growth Curve That Is Slowing DownThree in the morning in the doping control corridor, and the only sound is a...
The Empty Analysis: Data Discipline in the Middle of the V.League Transfer WindowAt seven in the morning I reopened a file I had spent three nights building....
Swimming: The 15 Metres Below the Surface — the Medal-Deciding Data Zone World Swimming Still Leaves BlankFifteen Metres With No Audience On 24 July 2026, in Budapest, Kristóf Milák...
WADA 2026: The Testing Race Slows Down, Anti-Doping System Shows Financial FracturesOn the final night, when the referee blew the whistle and the stands erupted,...
Doping Testing Rose, But Its Growth Is Slowing: Reading WADA's 2026 Annual ReportIn the compliance section of the annual report, two data lines move in opposi...
Anh Vien's 4.21 Seconds and the Data Gap in Vietnamese SwimmingOn the night of August 6, 2026, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de...
Distance Swimming Split Index: The 3% Safety Zone and Vietnam's Pacing EquationIn the 1500m freestyle lane, there is a moment the stands barely notice yet...
