Swimming
Treyvn Krauss Commits to Michigan: A No. 11 Ranking Built on the 1650, Not the 200
Gretchen Walsh Breaks the Short-Course 50 Free World Record: 22.75 Seconds and a Quote That Matters More Than the Swim
55.17 Seconds and an Eleven-Year Asian Record: The Pacing Problem of Yu Yiting
McEvoy Lowers World Cup 50m Freestyle Record to 20.13 Seconds: The Line Between Short Course and Long Course
Treyvn Krauss Commits to Michigan: A No. 11 Ranking Built on the 1650, Not the 200In June, at Summer Junior Nationals, Treyvn Krauss swam the 1500-meter...
The 25m Pool and a Pacing Correction: Yu Yiting Hits 2:02.63 as the Asian Record Changes Hands for the Fourth Time in a MonthYu Yiting touched the wall in 2:02.63. The scoreboard flipped, the World Cup...
Cassie Espinoza to USC: 4:51.13 and 4:20.70 Are Two Different SportsTwo 200 freestyle marks sit inside the same commitment story: 1:51.94 and...
When the Pool Has No Data Left: An Empty Report and a Lesson in Sports JournalismThat morning, I sat in a small office in Hanoi, opened the analysis document ...
Gretchen Walsh Breaks the Short-Course 50 Free World Record: 22.75 Seconds and a Quote That Matters More Than the SwimCharlottesville, Virginia. The pool at the University of Virginia, a late-yea...
55.17 Seconds and an Eleven-Year Asian Record: The Pacing Problem of Yu YitingWhen Yu Yiting touched the wall, the scoreboard read 55.17. The 20-year-old...
Women's Swimming: The Underwater Race and the Limits of NumbersAt the 15-metre mark, a swimming race has not truly begun — it has only just...
Vietnamese Swimming After the Ánh Viên Era: The Regression Line and the Trap of Isolated RecordsThe electronic timer on lane four clicked through its final digits, the stand...
Wilson York Commits to Cal: Decoding the Injury Load Behind the 53.56 Breaststroke BreakthroughIn August 2026, at Junior Pan Pacs, Wilson York touched the wall in 1:00.65 i...
A record night in Japan's short-course pool: the 400 IM world mark falls, a 50 breast national record is erasedThree-quarters of a second. That margin was enough for Matsushita to erase th...
59 Turns and 5.14 Seconds: What the Tashkent Scoreboard Didn't Tell You About Ching Hwee GanAt Tashkent, when Ching Hwee Gan touched the wall, the scoreboard froze at...
The Quiet Lane: Vietnamese Swimming and an Unfinished Generational HandoverI remember that morning at the aquatics center, the smell of chlorine mixed...
Data Gaps on the Swimming Lane: The Line Between Analysis and FabricationOn the third night of Australia's national swimming championships, I sat in r...
The Empty Analysis and the Lesson of Not Fabricating: When Sports Data Goes MissingAt a desk in Nagoya, I opened the analysis board before dawn. It should have...
McEvoy Lowers World Cup 50m Freestyle Record to 20.13 Seconds: The Line Between Short Course and Long CourseThe Tashkent night, the scoreboard flicked to 20.13. Cameron McEvoy touched t...
When the Water Changes Thrones: The World Swimming Power Map and Vietnam's VoidThe pool at five in the morning has no spectators. There is only the sound of...
