Swimming
2:02.63 and the Crack of One Month: Yu Yiting, China, and the 200m IM Changing Its Own Rules
The 1.3-Second Curve: Decoding a Breaststroker's Path to the Ivy League Door
After the Final Lane: Vietnamese Swimming and the Seconds No One Counts
When Pool Data Falls Silent: Lessons from a Meet Without Splits
1,700 Tickets for a College Swim Meet: Real Commercial Signal or a New Bubble?
Vietnamese Swimming and the Lesson from an Empty Analysis: When Data Is the Prerequisite for Talking About PerformanceIn Vietnamese sport, swimming always draws special attention whenever the SEA...
Seven Texas A&M Swimmers Miss the First Two Official Meets: The Story Is Eligibility, Not the ScorelineAt ten o'clock at night on October 10, Nagoya time, I opened the Georgia–Texa...
Camille Spink, 45.91 Seconds and the Yard Trap: Mapping the Limits of an NCAA MilestoneOpening The electronic clock at the University of Tennessee pool stopped at...
Katie Grimes, 4:03.27 and the Border Between Two Coordinate SystemsThe scoreboard reads 4:03.27, and within hours that number sat at the top of...
Amy Hempenstall to Washington State: The Wall, the Range Problem, and a Redrawn Pac-12In late 2026, at a short-course open meet in Britain, a swimmer posted five...
Steenbergen Takes World Cup Overall With 175.4 Points as Coetze Edges Kornev by 0.45 SecondsAstana, the last swim of the last stop. Pieter Coetze touched the wall in the...
Angelina Lista Flips from LSU to Missouri: Short Course Prices Her, Long Course Doesn't YetOn the day Angelina Lista flipped her commitment from LSU to Missouri, I was...
Treyvn Krauss and Michigan: The Data File of a Distance Specialist Inside the Big Ten's Thirst for DepthAt the 200m freestyle final at Summer Junior Nationals, Treyvn Krauss touched...
Nine Lanes of a Swim: How Analysts Read Swimming Data, and Why Empty Cells Must Stay EmptyThe clock on the board stopped, and the whole arena looked up to read a singl...
2:02.63 and the Crack of One Month: Yu Yiting, China, and the 200m IM Changing Its Own RulesIn Nha Trang, I have a habit of reopening the World Cup results at 2 a.m. Not...
Twenty-Five-Meter Speed Cannot Rescue a 200-Meter Race: How Astana Turned the Crown Into a Game of Timing, Not SpeedPieter Coetze swam the 200 backstroke final at the Astana World Cup in 1:48.0...
One Race, Two Pools: Why a Swimming Result Means Nothing Without Pool LengthRome, July 2026. Over eight days of competition at the World Championships, 4...
Between Heat Maps and Breath: Swimming Needs Another LanguageThe pool at four in the morning is as empty as a church that has not yet been...
Vietnamese Swimming Records Through the Lens of Regression: When the Short Course Draws a Different PeakIn April 2026, at a national swimming championship held in a 25-metre pool, t...
Swim Workout #1131: When the Training Ladder Becomes a Global Content MachineOn my computer screen in Shanghai, at six in the morning, a swim workout...
The 1.3-Second Curve: Decoding a Breaststroker's Path to the Ivy League DoorAt the prelims of the CIF State Championships — California's high-school...
After the Final Lane: Vietnamese Swimming and the Seconds No One CountsOn finals night, in the 1500-metre freestyle lane, the stands remember only...
Cameron McEvoy and 20.13 Seconds: When Age 32 Rewrites the Limits of Short-Course WaterThe electronic board in Tashkent lit up with the number 20.13. Cameron McEvoy...
MacKenzie Lung and the 0.97-Second Drop: When Swimming Data Bows to a PregnancyOn September 16, MacKenzie Lung — then still known as MacKenzie Miller — post...
Seven Texas A&M Swimmers Miss the First Two Official Meets: The Story Is Eligibility, Not the ScorelineAt ten o'clock at night on October 10, Nagoya time, I opened the Georgia–Texa...
Camille Spink, 45.91 Seconds and the Yard Trap: Mapping the Limits of an NCAA MilestoneOpening The electronic clock at the University of Tennessee pool stopped at...
Katie Grimes, 4:03.27 and the Border Between Two Coordinate SystemsThe scoreboard reads 4:03.27, and within hours that number sat at the top of...
Amy Hempenstall to Washington State: The Wall, the Range Problem, and a Redrawn Pac-12In late 2026, at a short-course open meet in Britain, a swimmer posted five...
Steenbergen Takes World Cup Overall With 175.4 Points as Coetze Edges Kornev by 0.45 SecondsAstana, the last swim of the last stop. Pieter Coetze touched the wall in the...
Angelina Lista Flips from LSU to Missouri: Short Course Prices Her, Long Course Doesn't YetOn the day Angelina Lista flipped her commitment from LSU to Missouri, I was...
Treyvn Krauss and Michigan: The Data File of a Distance Specialist Inside the Big Ten's Thirst for DepthAt the 200m freestyle final at Summer Junior Nationals, Treyvn Krauss touched...
Nine Lanes of a Swim: How Analysts Read Swimming Data, and Why Empty Cells Must Stay EmptyThe clock on the board stopped, and the whole arena looked up to read a singl...
2:02.63 and the Crack of One Month: Yu Yiting, China, and the 200m IM Changing Its Own RulesIn Nha Trang, I have a habit of reopening the World Cup results at 2 a.m. Not...
Twenty-Five-Meter Speed Cannot Rescue a 200-Meter Race: How Astana Turned the Crown Into a Game of Timing, Not SpeedPieter Coetze swam the 200 backstroke final at the Astana World Cup in 1:48.0...
One Race, Two Pools: Why a Swimming Result Means Nothing Without Pool LengthRome, July 2026. Over eight days of competition at the World Championships, 4...
Between Heat Maps and Breath: Swimming Needs Another LanguageThe pool at four in the morning is as empty as a church that has not yet been...
Vietnamese Swimming Records Through the Lens of Regression: When the Short Course Draws a Different PeakIn April 2026, at a national swimming championship held in a 25-metre pool, t...
Swim Workout #1131: When the Training Ladder Becomes a Global Content MachineOn my computer screen in Shanghai, at six in the morning, a swim workout...
The 1.3-Second Curve: Decoding a Breaststroker's Path to the Ivy League DoorAt the prelims of the CIF State Championships — California's high-school...
After the Final Lane: Vietnamese Swimming and the Seconds No One CountsOn finals night, in the 1500-metre freestyle lane, the stands remember only...
Cameron McEvoy and 20.13 Seconds: When Age 32 Rewrites the Limits of Short-Course WaterThe electronic board in Tashkent lit up with the number 20.13. Cameron McEvoy...
MacKenzie Lung and the 0.97-Second Drop: When Swimming Data Bows to a PregnancyOn September 16, MacKenzie Lung — then still known as MacKenzie Miller — post...