Swimming
1:49.54 in September: Is Miranda Grana's 200 Backstroke a Record, or a Calendar Story?
College Swimming League Match 1: A Review of the Skins Format, But No Times
Tatjana Smith's Comeback: The Story Behind 29.50 Seconds the Scoreboard Won't Tell
Nobody Wrote the Pool Length: Tatjana Smith, 29.50 Seconds, and the Olympics' New Sprint
Empty Boxes, Full Confidence: In Bangladesh's Swimming, the Injury Gets Named Before the Evidence
Empty Boxes, Full Confidence: In Bangladesh's Swimming, the Injury Gets Named Before the EvidenceNovember 2026, Mirpur's outdoor 50-metre pool. Minutes before the men's 100m...
Empty Cells Also Testify: Bangladesh Swimming's Unwritten Shoulder and the Case for an Immutable LedgerLast December I sat down with a report — nine sections, a hundred-odd cells,...
Swimming's Information Infrastructure: 'Stats' in the Title, Only Advertising in the BodyA title landed in my hands, and when I opened its body, there was no data...
George Gibney: The End of a 30-Year Silence and a Shameful Chapter in Swimming HistoryIn 2026, standing at the outdoor 50-meter pool in Mirpur, I realized that the...
Tashkent's 25 Metres: Kornev's World-Record Tie, Yu Yiting's Two Asian Marks, and an Incomplete DatasetThe name goes up on the leaderboard; the number does not. The brief that...
Mirpur's Shoulder, Blockchain's Ledger: The Unwritten Injury History of Bangladeshi SwimmingIn December 2026 I stood at the edge of the open 50-metre pool in Mirpur, the...
The Cockatoo and the Pool Left Outside the FrameIt starts small, almost easy to miss. A pink bird appeared on a screen two da...
From 3:07.37 to 4:03.02: Clareburt's National Record Was Written in the Final Hundred MetersAt the 300-meter turn the clock read 3:07.37, and anyone holding a run sheet...
The Yard Clock, The River Ledger: 52.11 and the Delta's Account BookI have stood at the edge of the open-air Mirpur pool for three decades, and i...
1:49.54 in September: Is Miranda Grana's 200 Backstroke a Record, or a Calendar Story?The scoreboard lights up with 1:49.54. Lane five, Indiana's Miranda Grana,...
College Swimming League Match 1: A Review of the Skins Format, But No TimesLate last night, at the FMC Natatorium in Westmont, Illinois, the College...
Tatjana Smith's Comeback: The Story Behind 29.50 Seconds the Scoreboard Won't TellThe first thing that stopped me in the Sept 25 report was a single number:...
College Swim League Debut: A Format Where Relay Winners Pick the Stroke, and a First Chapter of Zero DataThe most important rule of the first College Swim League (CSL) match is not a...
How True Is 3:10.60? An Accounting Audit of the Asian Record in the Men's 4x100m Freestyle RelayThe sheet open on my screen has four numbers sitting side by side: 48.43,...
2:04.83 — The Record Was Built in the First Hundred, Not the Last FiftySeven in the evening. When 2:04.83 flashed on the board at the Aichi-Nagoya...
The 21.48 Audit: David Davis, Texas A&M and the Ledger of the American Swimming PipelineOne split in a 200 free relay — 21.48 seconds. Of everything the sponsored...
Tatjana Smith's Return: 29.50 Seconds, a New Olympic Event, and an Incomplete TimelineA report reached my desk on 25 September. The number placed at the top was no...
Nobody Wrote the Pool Length: Tatjana Smith, 29.50 Seconds, and the Olympics' New SprintNobody Wrote the Pool Length: Tatjana Smith, 29.50 Seconds, and the Olympics'...
Gorbenko's 52.11: A Domestic-Format Ledger and the Gap to World StandardA results board never lies on its own, and it never explains itself either....
Empty Cells Also Testify: Bangladesh Swimming's Unwritten Shoulder and the Case for an Immutable LedgerLast December I sat down with a report — nine sections, a hundred-odd cells,...
Swimming's Information Infrastructure: 'Stats' in the Title, Only Advertising in the BodyA title landed in my hands, and when I opened its body, there was no data...
George Gibney: The End of a 30-Year Silence and a Shameful Chapter in Swimming HistoryIn 2026, standing at the outdoor 50-meter pool in Mirpur, I realized that the...
Tashkent's 25 Metres: Kornev's World-Record Tie, Yu Yiting's Two Asian Marks, and an Incomplete DatasetThe name goes up on the leaderboard; the number does not. The brief that...
Mirpur's Shoulder, Blockchain's Ledger: The Unwritten Injury History of Bangladeshi SwimmingIn December 2026 I stood at the edge of the open 50-metre pool in Mirpur, the...
The Cockatoo and the Pool Left Outside the FrameIt starts small, almost easy to miss. A pink bird appeared on a screen two da...
From 3:07.37 to 4:03.02: Clareburt's National Record Was Written in the Final Hundred MetersAt the 300-meter turn the clock read 3:07.37, and anyone holding a run sheet...
The Yard Clock, The River Ledger: 52.11 and the Delta's Account BookI have stood at the edge of the open-air Mirpur pool for three decades, and i...
1:49.54 in September: Is Miranda Grana's 200 Backstroke a Record, or a Calendar Story?The scoreboard lights up with 1:49.54. Lane five, Indiana's Miranda Grana,...
College Swimming League Match 1: A Review of the Skins Format, But No TimesLate last night, at the FMC Natatorium in Westmont, Illinois, the College...
Tatjana Smith's Comeback: The Story Behind 29.50 Seconds the Scoreboard Won't TellThe first thing that stopped me in the Sept 25 report was a single number:...
College Swim League Debut: A Format Where Relay Winners Pick the Stroke, and a First Chapter of Zero DataThe most important rule of the first College Swim League (CSL) match is not a...
How True Is 3:10.60? An Accounting Audit of the Asian Record in the Men's 4x100m Freestyle RelayThe sheet open on my screen has four numbers sitting side by side: 48.43,...
2:04.83 — The Record Was Built in the First Hundred, Not the Last FiftySeven in the evening. When 2:04.83 flashed on the board at the Aichi-Nagoya...
The 21.48 Audit: David Davis, Texas A&M and the Ledger of the American Swimming PipelineOne split in a 200 free relay — 21.48 seconds. Of everything the sponsored...
Tatjana Smith's Return: 29.50 Seconds, a New Olympic Event, and an Incomplete TimelineA report reached my desk on 25 September. The number placed at the top was no...
Nobody Wrote the Pool Length: Tatjana Smith, 29.50 Seconds, and the Olympics' New SprintNobody Wrote the Pool Length: Tatjana Smith, 29.50 Seconds, and the Olympics'...
Gorbenko's 52.11: A Domestic-Format Ledger and the Gap to World StandardA results board never lies on its own, and it never explains itself either....