Swimming
Swimming Analysis Faces an Evidence Gap: Original Sources Needed to Assess Athletes and Competition Performance
The Mirpur Ledger and Indiana's Pool: You Cannot Balance a Long-Course Account with a Short-Course Stamp
Nobody Wrote Down the Course: Myah Rayburn, Colorado State, and a Twenty-Second Misreading
The Empty Payload: Swimming's Record Chain, Mirpur's Blank Notebook, and the Question the Ledger Never Asks
The 51.06 Short-Course Record: How Kosuke Makino Overtook Wang Shun — and How an Event's Invisible Wall Got Exposed
Swimming Analysis Faces an Evidence Gap: Original Sources Needed to Assess Athletes and Competition PerformanceA meaningful assessment of competitive swimming requires verifiable evidence....
119 Swimmers, 27 Federations, Zero World Records in Cancún: The Biggest Data Point in Open Water Is the Missing DataOn a November morning I sat in front of a laptop watching a live feed of an...
Short-Course Sparkle, Long-Course Question: A Medical Analysis of Sierrah Broadbelt's Alabama JourneyThat February evening at the Edinburgh International meet, the clock stopped ...
The Mirpur Ledger and Indiana's Pool: You Cannot Balance a Long-Course Account with a Short-Course StampI have watched swimming news for many years, and one thing keeps catching my...
On Athens' Doorstep: The Story the Scoreboard Won't Tell in the Water Polo World Cup DrawBeside the pool in Coimbra, I watched a coach holding a folded piece of paper...
How to Read a Swimming Result: The Story Behind the TimeA swimming result is rarely just a number. To make a time meaningful you need...
The Empty Lane Logbook: Bangladesh Swimming Has Results, But No RecordOn a December evening in 2026, at the outdoor 50-metre complex in Mirpur, I w...
The Race Nobody Wrote Down: Bangladesh Swimming’s Blank Record PagesThe light had barely reached the chars on the Shitalakshya. The finishing jud...
From 2:15.20 to 2:40.39: The 25 Seconds That Are Not a CollapseFebruary 2026, Roseville. Irelyn Kennedy touched the wall in the 200...
Bloomington's Scoreboard Is Still Empty: In the 25-Metre Pool, the Test Is Format, Not TimesBefore the meet that is scheduled to begin at noon Eastern in Bloomington,...
Matsushita’s 3:54.33: A Record Claim, Three Verification Gates and an 11.5-Second GapThe Board at Saga At the short-course pool in Saga Prefecture, the board show...
Two Stops Canceled, Full Prize Money Paid: The Name Missing From Open Water's ArithmeticI was going through the points table from the first stop at Lake Tenero when ...
Nobody Wrote Down the Course: Myah Rayburn, Colorado State, and a Twenty-Second MisreadingTwo numbers sat side by side on a results sheet. One read 2:03.64, the other...
An Empty Cell Is Not a Green Light: Swimming Data, the Mirpur Pool and the Ledger That Cannot ForgetNine chapters. Under every one of them, the same line: insufficient...
The Empty Payload: Swimming's Record Chain, Mirpur's Blank Notebook, and the Question the Ledger Never AsksThe report arrived at seven in the morning, Vancouver time. Rain on the windo...
Five of Eight: How Arizona State's Freshman Bests Fail to Balance the 'Swim Fast, Often' LedgerI Opened the Ledger; It Read Five When I sit down in front of a claim, my fir...
119 Swimmers, 27 Federations, Zero World Records in Cancún: The Biggest Data Point in Open Water Is the Missing DataOn a November morning I sat in front of a laptop watching a live feed of an...
Short-Course Sparkle, Long-Course Question: A Medical Analysis of Sierrah Broadbelt's Alabama JourneyThat February evening at the Edinburgh International meet, the clock stopped ...
The Mirpur Ledger and Indiana's Pool: You Cannot Balance a Long-Course Account with a Short-Course StampI have watched swimming news for many years, and one thing keeps catching my...
On Athens' Doorstep: The Story the Scoreboard Won't Tell in the Water Polo World Cup DrawBeside the pool in Coimbra, I watched a coach holding a folded piece of paper...
How to Read a Swimming Result: The Story Behind the TimeA swimming result is rarely just a number. To make a time meaningful you need...
The Empty Lane Logbook: Bangladesh Swimming Has Results, But No RecordOn a December evening in 2026, at the outdoor 50-metre complex in Mirpur, I w...
The Race Nobody Wrote Down: Bangladesh Swimming’s Blank Record PagesThe light had barely reached the chars on the Shitalakshya. The finishing jud...
From 2:15.20 to 2:40.39: The 25 Seconds That Are Not a CollapseFebruary 2026, Roseville. Irelyn Kennedy touched the wall in the 200...
Bloomington's Scoreboard Is Still Empty: In the 25-Metre Pool, the Test Is Format, Not TimesBefore the meet that is scheduled to begin at noon Eastern in Bloomington,...
Matsushita’s 3:54.33: A Record Claim, Three Verification Gates and an 11.5-Second GapThe Board at Saga At the short-course pool in Saga Prefecture, the board show...
Two Stops Canceled, Full Prize Money Paid: The Name Missing From Open Water's ArithmeticI was going through the points table from the first stop at Lake Tenero when ...
Nobody Wrote Down the Course: Myah Rayburn, Colorado State, and a Twenty-Second MisreadingTwo numbers sat side by side on a results sheet. One read 2:03.64, the other...
An Empty Cell Is Not a Green Light: Swimming Data, the Mirpur Pool and the Ledger That Cannot ForgetNine chapters. Under every one of them, the same line: insufficient...
The Empty Payload: Swimming's Record Chain, Mirpur's Blank Notebook, and the Question the Ledger Never AsksThe report arrived at seven in the morning, Vancouver time. Rain on the windo...
Five of Eight: How Arizona State's Freshman Bests Fail to Balance the 'Swim Fast, Often' LedgerI Opened the Ledger; It Read Five When I sit down in front of a claim, my fir...