Swimming
SwimmingKarly Whitehead and the 2028 Promise: Backstroke at SMU, Where the Starting Block Stretches Longer Than the FinishIn February, I watched the UIL 5A Texas state finals tape three times, pausin...
SwimmingThe $100 Million Virginia Lawsuit: Thirteen Minutes Underwater and the Poolside Supervision GapA nine-year-old boy. Thirteen minutes beneath the surface. The person who...
SwimmingSpink, 45.91 Seconds and the Limits of a Milestone Measured in YardsThe first leg of a 200-yard freestyle relay is the most honest swim in a...
SwimmingGabrielsen Natatorium sells out: College swimming and the audience question nobody has asked correctlyGabrielsen Natatorium in Athens, Georgia, seats 2,000. This past weekend, not...
SwimmingGTSA Swim Classic 2026: Why Addie Farrier's 1:00.59 Matters More Than Eight GoldsThe starting beep cuts through, and in the short silence before the water...
SwimmingFred Warner's Return from the Pool: When Football's Locker Room Borrows the Lane Line to RebuildThere is a detail in ESPN's four-minute feature I rewound three times. Fred...
SwimmingFrom 'Level One' to 58 Tackles: Fred Warner, the San Jose State Pool and the Limits of a Broadcast DealFour minutes. That is the entire running time ESPN gave San Jose State inside...
SwimmingWhen the Lane Loses Its Numbers: A Day in Nagoya and Learning to Read Swimming With the Naked EyeIn the morning in Nagoya, I opened my laptop and received an empty file. No...
SwimmingWhen Swimmers Stand on Ice: Astana and the Third Breath of the World CupAstana, a late-autumn afternoon. Inside the Barys Astana arena, Cameron McEvo...
SwimmingWhen Swimming Data Refuses to Speak: The Empty Report and the Price of GuessingAn entirely empty data table was the only thing I received in this analysis...
SwimmingGretchen Walsh's 22.75 Seconds and the Dance on the Short CourseI still remember how a short-course race ends: not with a roar, but with a dr...
SwimmingNine Measures of Elite Swimming — and Vietnam's Data GapIn the men's 100m freestyle, the current world record stands at 46.40 seconds...
SwimmingVietnamese Swimming and the Empty Dataset: When a Single Label Is Not Enough to AnalyseThe dataset arrived one afternoon. Twenty-six fields. Twenty-five of them...
SwimmingBabson Beats Bentley: First Win in 26 Years and the Roster Equation of a Division III ProgramWhen the electronic scoreboard at the Babson Park pool closed at 172–116, wha...
SwimmingReina Liu's Two Pools: What the Gap Between 51.85 and 1:00.46 Says About a Stanford CommitmentIn December, a scoreboard at Winter Juniors-East flashed the number 51.85. Th...
SwimmingPieter Coetze's 49.11: An African Record Written in the Final 25 MetersAt the 75-meter mark of the Baku World Cup stop, the scoreboard showed two...
SwimmingThe $100 Million Virginia Lawsuit: Thirteen Minutes Underwater and the Poolside Supervision GapA nine-year-old boy. Thirteen minutes beneath the surface. The person who...
SwimmingSpink, 45.91 Seconds and the Limits of a Milestone Measured in YardsThe first leg of a 200-yard freestyle relay is the most honest swim in a...
SwimmingGabrielsen Natatorium sells out: College swimming and the audience question nobody has asked correctlyGabrielsen Natatorium in Athens, Georgia, seats 2,000. This past weekend, not...
SwimmingGTSA Swim Classic 2026: Why Addie Farrier's 1:00.59 Matters More Than Eight GoldsThe starting beep cuts through, and in the short silence before the water...
SwimmingFred Warner's Return from the Pool: When Football's Locker Room Borrows the Lane Line to RebuildThere is a detail in ESPN's four-minute feature I rewound three times. Fred...
SwimmingFrom 'Level One' to 58 Tackles: Fred Warner, the San Jose State Pool and the Limits of a Broadcast DealFour minutes. That is the entire running time ESPN gave San Jose State inside...
SwimmingWhen the Lane Loses Its Numbers: A Day in Nagoya and Learning to Read Swimming With the Naked EyeIn the morning in Nagoya, I opened my laptop and received an empty file. No...
SwimmingWhen Swimmers Stand on Ice: Astana and the Third Breath of the World CupAstana, a late-autumn afternoon. Inside the Barys Astana arena, Cameron McEvo...
SwimmingWhen Swimming Data Refuses to Speak: The Empty Report and the Price of GuessingAn entirely empty data table was the only thing I received in this analysis...
SwimmingGretchen Walsh's 22.75 Seconds and the Dance on the Short CourseI still remember how a short-course race ends: not with a roar, but with a dr...
SwimmingNine Measures of Elite Swimming — and Vietnam's Data GapIn the men's 100m freestyle, the current world record stands at 46.40 seconds...
SwimmingVietnamese Swimming and the Empty Dataset: When a Single Label Is Not Enough to AnalyseThe dataset arrived one afternoon. Twenty-six fields. Twenty-five of them...
SwimmingBabson Beats Bentley: First Win in 26 Years and the Roster Equation of a Division III ProgramWhen the electronic scoreboard at the Babson Park pool closed at 172–116, wha...
SwimmingReina Liu's Two Pools: What the Gap Between 51.85 and 1:00.46 Says About a Stanford CommitmentIn December, a scoreboard at Winter Juniors-East flashed the number 51.85. Th...
SwimmingPieter Coetze's 49.11: An African Record Written in the Final 25 MetersAt the 75-meter mark of the Baku World Cup stop, the scoreboard showed two...