Swimming
26.75 Seconds: The New Age Equation for Breaststroke Rising Out of a Niigata Prelim
From a California Pool to a Mymensingh Canal: How a Coaching Job Posting Exposes Bangladesh's Structural Swimming Crisis
Tuna Swim Club's Head Coach Posting: The Quiet Arithmetic of US Club Swimming and the Shoulder Nobody Wrote Down
22.91 Twice: Bahrain's Gold and the Ledger of an Event That Sits Outside the Olympics
‘New Michael Phelps’ Fears While Watching ASIAD: Japan’s Rising Cluster vs. Léon Marchand
A Report Born of an Empty Dataset: When Every Cell in Swimming Analysis Is BlankThere is a simple rule in sports analysis: conclusions come after the data,...
The Problem of Empty Data in Sports Analysis: Why In-Depth Reports Cannot Be Built on Incomplete InputsThe biggest risk in sports journalism and analysis is reaching conclusions on...
Gabrielsen Sold Out at 2,000, but the Ledger's Biggest Number Is Still 2,071On an October evening outside the Gabrielsen Natatorium in Athens, Georgia,...
Cal Won 19-4. The Number That Matters Is 18.The scoreboard at Spieker Aquatics Complex read 9-0 midway through the second...
26.75 Seconds: The New Age Equation for Breaststroke Rising Out of a Niigata Prelim26.75. When those three digits lit up on the electronic board in Niigata, the...
Blockchain Technology in Swimming: A New Horizon of Transparency and SecuritySwimming is an ancient and universal sport. In competitive swimming, verifyin...
First Time Since 2026: The Babson-Bentley Meet, and a Headline With No WitnessFirst Time Since 2026: The Babson-Bentley Meet, and a Headline With No Witnes...
The Universality Ledger: Four Decades of Bangladesh Swimming, Zero Merit Qualifiers — and the Record Book Nobody KeptLast season I went looking for the split times of a 50m freestyle heat and...
Ching Hwee Gan's 8:15.73 at Baku World Cup: Short-Course Front-Load Strategy and the Data LedgerSingapore's Ching Hwee Gan broke her own national record in the women's 800m...
October's NCAA Meet, CSL Match 3: Cal, Stanford, Ohio State, Auburn — and One Missing NumberMy notebook has four columns — name, district, coach, time. This week the...
The Empty Swimming Ledger: Four Data-Less Decades in Bangladesh's Pool, Doping Records, and What Blockchain Can Actually FixThe analysis file that landed in my inbox had nine sections, four tables, a...
275 Athletes, Three Rented Pools and One Open Coaching Post: What an Indiana Job Listing Tells Us About the U.S. Club-Swimming Supply ChainLast week a document landed in my inbox that was neither a final results shee...