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
The Information Gap in Swimming Analysis: Where Are the Results, Techniques and Competition Stories?A swimming competition result never tells the entire story. Behind a time, a...
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...
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...