Swimming
Swimming and the 50-Metre Hole: When the Data Sheet Is Empty, Someone Writes Into ItOn a results sheet from a youth swimming meet in northern Vietnam, one line w...
IOC Dissolves 12 Committees: The Olympic Lane Stays the Same, the Undercurrent Does NotIn a meeting room in Lausanne there was no starting buzzer. No false-start...
arena Seeks a Mountain West Liaison: The Swimwear Battle Moves Into the Coach's HandsThis August, a coach in Las Vegas sent me a link to arena's careers page with...
Sam Gao Commits to Johns Hopkins: A 2026 Personal-Best Streak and the Seven-Day ProblemOn March 12, 2026, at the Western Zone Senior Championships, Sam Gao touched...
Emma Redman, 2:09.80 and the course-conversion problem: What really lies behind the 200m breaststroke barrier breakCharlottesville, a Saturday evening in January. A 25-yard pool, yellow lights...
Nine Layers of a Lane: Data Standards Before MedalsNine Layers of a Lane In late July 2026, in Rome, 43 world records fell acros...
The label was right, everything else was empty: a nine-dimension swimming report and the lesson of null dataOn Tuesday afternoon, a nine-dimension swimming analysis file passed through...
The 25-Metre Pool Trap in Reading Vietnamese Swimming TimesThe scoreboard shows a string of digits. Someone screenshots it, circles it i...
Yu Yiting Breaks Asian Record in Women's 100 Butterfly with 55.17: The Silence After the Wall"In silence, an athlete's heart beats louder than any roar." I wrote that lin...
4:22.74 and the 0.01-Second Gap: How Yu Yiting Erased Ye Shiwen's 14-Year-Old Chinese RecordThe touchpad at the Astana pool flashed 4:22.74. Yu Yiting surfaced, and it...
First International Youth Coach Course in Bali: When Pool Swimming and Open Water Share One ClassroomOn a Bali beach, on the morning of 8 August, a group of coaches from twelve...
The Lane After Paris 2026: A Map of Power and the Data Signals for the Next CycleOn the night of the men's 100m freestyle final at Paris 2026, I sat in front ...
Tabuchi Breaks Japanese 1500m Freestyle Record, 17-Year-Old Imaizumi Sets World Junior RecordThe water broke in lane four without much noise. It was the kind of stroke a...
Vietnamese Swimming: The Data Void Behind Every MedalOn the stands at a national swimming meet, I opened my laptop and built a...
The Post-Paris 2026 Swimming Power Map: Four Poles and the Gap Between LanesOn the night of the men's 200m breaststroke final at La Défense Arena, Paris,...
From Heidelberg to Texas: Lena Ludwig and the Conversion Problem No One Has VerifiedA German breaststroker has just placed her name on the Texas Longhorns...
Nine Layers of Swimming Data: Analysis Against the Temptation to Invent 'Miracles'On my analysis screen, there is a completely empty column. No athlete name, n...
2027 Pro Swim Series and the Four-Round 50m Format: USA Swimming Stress-Tests Sprinters Before LA 2028In a 50m final, the gap between gold and fourth place is often shorter than a...
Nine Lenses for Reading a Swimming LaneNine Lenses for Reading a Swimming Lane In 2026, at the World Championships i...
Andre Labara, 15, Swims 4:09.82 in the 400 IM: An Australian Age Record and a 56.70 Freestyle Leg That Flipped the FinalI rewound the final clip three times. Not to see who touched the wall first. ...
The Finish Line Is Where It Begins: When Cal Raises Two No.1s and the College Swim League Rewrites the Broadcast PlaybookThe opening week of the US college swimming season this year contained one...
IOC Dissolves 12 Committees: The Olympic Lane Stays the Same, the Undercurrent Does NotIn a meeting room in Lausanne there was no starting buzzer. No false-start...
arena Seeks a Mountain West Liaison: The Swimwear Battle Moves Into the Coach's HandsThis August, a coach in Las Vegas sent me a link to arena's careers page with...
Sam Gao Commits to Johns Hopkins: A 2026 Personal-Best Streak and the Seven-Day ProblemOn March 12, 2026, at the Western Zone Senior Championships, Sam Gao touched...
Emma Redman, 2:09.80 and the course-conversion problem: What really lies behind the 200m breaststroke barrier breakCharlottesville, a Saturday evening in January. A 25-yard pool, yellow lights...
Nine Layers of a Lane: Data Standards Before MedalsNine Layers of a Lane In late July 2026, in Rome, 43 world records fell acros...
The label was right, everything else was empty: a nine-dimension swimming report and the lesson of null dataOn Tuesday afternoon, a nine-dimension swimming analysis file passed through...
The 25-Metre Pool Trap in Reading Vietnamese Swimming TimesThe scoreboard shows a string of digits. Someone screenshots it, circles it i...
Yu Yiting Breaks Asian Record in Women's 100 Butterfly with 55.17: The Silence After the Wall"In silence, an athlete's heart beats louder than any roar." I wrote that lin...
4:22.74 and the 0.01-Second Gap: How Yu Yiting Erased Ye Shiwen's 14-Year-Old Chinese RecordThe touchpad at the Astana pool flashed 4:22.74. Yu Yiting surfaced, and it...
First International Youth Coach Course in Bali: When Pool Swimming and Open Water Share One ClassroomOn a Bali beach, on the morning of 8 August, a group of coaches from twelve...
The Lane After Paris 2026: A Map of Power and the Data Signals for the Next CycleOn the night of the men's 100m freestyle final at Paris 2026, I sat in front ...
Tabuchi Breaks Japanese 1500m Freestyle Record, 17-Year-Old Imaizumi Sets World Junior RecordThe water broke in lane four without much noise. It was the kind of stroke a...
Vietnamese Swimming: The Data Void Behind Every MedalOn the stands at a national swimming meet, I opened my laptop and built a...
The Post-Paris 2026 Swimming Power Map: Four Poles and the Gap Between LanesOn the night of the men's 200m breaststroke final at La Défense Arena, Paris,...
From Heidelberg to Texas: Lena Ludwig and the Conversion Problem No One Has VerifiedA German breaststroker has just placed her name on the Texas Longhorns...
Nine Layers of Swimming Data: Analysis Against the Temptation to Invent 'Miracles'On my analysis screen, there is a completely empty column. No athlete name, n...
2027 Pro Swim Series and the Four-Round 50m Format: USA Swimming Stress-Tests Sprinters Before LA 2028In a 50m final, the gap between gold and fourth place is often shorter than a...
Nine Lenses for Reading a Swimming LaneNine Lenses for Reading a Swimming Lane In 2026, at the World Championships i...
Andre Labara, 15, Swims 4:09.82 in the 400 IM: An Australian Age Record and a 56.70 Freestyle Leg That Flipped the FinalI rewound the final clip three times. Not to see who touched the wall first. ...
The Finish Line Is Where It Begins: When Cal Raises Two No.1s and the College Swim League Rewrites the Broadcast PlaybookThe opening week of the US college swimming season this year contained one...
