Swimming
2027 Swimming World Cup: New 50m Stroke Events and the Olympic Arithmetic of Seventh Place
Justin Shi Commits to Stanford: 31 Data Points and One Missing Shoulder
Ledger of a Verbal: Kiera Powers, Ohio State, and the Invisible Lane at Mirpur
Six to Two: The SEC's Seven-Day Swim Format and the Old Habit of Counting by the Ledger
Swimming Analysis Faces an Information Gap: Performance, Records and Competition Assessment Impossible Without Source MaterialSwimming Analysis Faces an Information Gap: Performance, Records and...
One Pool, 412 Swims, and an Empty ColumnThe Somoy TV stream was dropping every three minutes. It was the final sessio...
2027 Swimming World Cup: New 50m Stroke Events and the Olympic Arithmetic of Seventh PlaceIn Berlin, in October 2027, the swimmer who finishes seventh in a 50m butterf...
Justin Shi Commits to Stanford: 31 Data Points and One Missing ShoulderJustin Shi Commits to Stanford: 31 Data Points and One Missing Shoulder Hook:...
Tomonobu Gomi's 48.58: A New Chapter in Asian Swimming, or an Illusion of Pool Geometry?48.58. That number is where the story begins. At the 2026 Japanese Short Cour...
The Ledger of Zero: The Empty Cells in Bangladesh's Swimming File Are the Real StoryNine dimensions. Under each one, sub-fields, tables, confidence labels. But...
Zero in the Swimming Ledger: Where Bangladesh's Data Pipeline BrokeLast week an analytical report landed on my desk. Nine analytical pillars, ea...
The Spreadsheet That Returned Empty: Bangladesh Swimming's Data Void Is Itself a ResultLast week I ran an analysis. Nine dimensions, more than sixty evaluation...
The 25m Ledger, the 50m Truth: How to Read Chen Juner's 200m Butterfly RecordIn a 25-metre short-course pool a time becomes a record; in a 50-metre...
Two Numbers From a Baku Morning: Kornev's 20.73, McEvoy's 20.96 — and What the Scoreboard Left UnwrittenAt half past nine at Baku's 25-metre pool, the last heat of the men's 50m...
The 2028 Olympic Torch Will Run From Atlanta, but the Real News for Swimmers Is the Pool Inside SoFi StadiumAt the 2026 National Age Group Championship, I swam the 50m freestyle in 27.8...
The 24.37 Buried Inside 1:43.49: Zhang Zhanshuo's Asian Record and a Spreadsheet's ReckoningIn Tokyo, an evening final. The clock stopped at 24.37 seconds before the fir...
A Fifth Year Granted: How the Owen McDonald and Zalan Sarkany Ruling Rewrites the NCAA MathThe Court's Seal, the Pool's Water, and a Question Mark Before the seal came...
2:06.10 — The Distance Between Two Notebooks and a Thirteen-Year-Old's NameThe Anchor With fifty metres left in a Japanese pool, the scoreboard still sa...
A $5 Million Ceiling, the Open Mirpur Pool, and Where Swimming Sits in the LedgerA Document at Two in the Morning I went looking for the race and found the...
4:17.13 vs 4:17.08: Measuring Paige Kowal's Alabama Commitment in HundredthsZero point zero five seconds. In an SEC 400 IM final, that is the distance...
150 Minutes Over Five Days: What London's Learn-to-Swim Programme Measures, and What It Does NotI have never stood on the deck at the London Aquatics Centre, and that is wor...
Ledger of a Verbal: Kiera Powers, Ohio State, and the Invisible Lane at MirpurAt three in the morning in a Vancouver apartment, a commitment graphic floate...
A Judge Moved 69.5 Points: The NCAA Fifth-Year Ruling and Indiana's ScoreboardLast season I printed the NCAA Championships score sheet and pinned it to the...
Six to Two: The SEC's Seven-Day Swim Format and the Old Habit of Counting by the Ledger“Six to two.” When the SEC announced a format change for its 2027 swimming an...
2026 Asian Games Swimming: What 0.45 Seconds and 9 Seconds in the Seed List Actually SayFrom the balcony in Rajshahi, the number that caught my eye first was not a...
The Gap Nobody Sees Inside 51.98 SecondsThe touchpad sounded, and the board flashed 51.98. A Games Record in the men'...
From Rio to Baton Rouge: Three Deltas and the Ledger We Never OpenedEleven at night in my room in Barishal, a laptop screen: a tiger emoji, a...