Swimming
Vietnamese Swimming and the Lesson of an Empty Analysis: When Data Does Not Exist, Every Conclusion Is Fabrication2026-10-22During a morning training session at a sports center in Shanghai, I reopened ...
Michigan Lands No. 11 Recruit Treyvn Krauss: A Commitment Built for the Long Haul2026-10-20The electronic clock stopped at 4:21.31. A 25-yard pool, two walls, the surfa...
Arizona Smith Commits to Florida: Reading the 7.4-Second Gap Between Short Course Yards and Long Course Meters2026-10-19The results sheet from the March 2026 Cary Sectionals carries five lines wort...
UVA SCM Pro Elite: One Empty Lane and the Trap of Reading Pre-Meet Seeds2026-10-17Opening One detail in the Session 1 start list at the UVA SCM Pro Elite meet...
Yu Yiting's 55.17: Mapping the Splits of an Asian Record2026-10-17Two hundredths of a second. When Yu Yiting's hand touched the wall in the...
SwimmingVietnamese Swimming and the Lesson of an Empty Analysis: When Data Does Not Exist, Every Conclusion Is FabricationDuring a morning training session at a sports center in Shanghai, I reopened ...
SwimmingMikayla Tan Chooses Stanford: The Third Top-10 Verbal and the 0.06-Second GapAt the 100-meter breaststroke final at Winter Juniors West, the electronic...
SwimmingMissing Splits on the Lane Line: The Data Standard for Reading a Swim ResultAt 1:12 in the morning I opened a results file sent from a youth swim meet....
SwimmingVietnam's Swimming Files: Full of Names, Empty of DataI opened the file at six in the morning, before the pool in Can Tho had...
SwimmingMichigan Lands No. 11 Recruit Treyvn Krauss: A Commitment Built for the Long HaulThe electronic clock stopped at 4:21.31. A 25-yard pool, two walls, the surfa...
SwimmingArizona Smith Commits to Florida: Reading the 7.4-Second Gap Between Short Course Yards and Long Course MetersThe results sheet from the March 2026 Cary Sectionals carries five lines wort...
SwimmingBen Oswiecinski commits to Bucknell 2027: What the 1650-Yard Numbers Are SayingIn the past week, a small line passed through my data board: Ben Oswiecinski,...
SwimmingA 10-Second Drop in the 1650: What Is Bucknell Actually Buying in Ben Oswiecinski?People see the finish; I look at the tenth stroke before it. Here, that tenth...
SwimmingKate Douglass's 2:02.76: The U.S. Open Record and the One Leg She Left BehindThe split line appeared in four rows, and I had to read the second one three...
SwimmingUVA SCM Pro Elite: One Empty Lane and the Trap of Reading Pre-Meet SeedsOpening One detail in the Session 1 start list at the UVA SCM Pro Elite meet...
SwimmingYu Yiting's 55.17: Mapping the Splits of an Asian RecordTwo hundredths of a second. When Yu Yiting's hand touched the wall in the...
SwimmingUSA Swimming Announces 2028 Olympic Trials Standards: When a 15-Year Model Decides Who Enters the Race545 days. From December 2, 2026 to May 30, 2028, USA Swimming opens the...
SwimmingGermany loses to South Korea: When data never sides with the fearfulIn the decisive match at the 2026 World Cup, Germany lost 0-2 to South Korea....
SwimmingWilson York and Cal's Class of 2028: When Breaststroke Becomes the SpearheadIn lane four, the water lay flat as glass before the whistle. I sat in the...
SwimmingBinh Duong Pressing: When Data Doesn't Lie in V-League 2026In round 19 of the 2026 V-League, there was a statistic I tracked all season:...
SwimmingA Record Night in Tokyo: Japan Is Building a Men's Breaststroke EcosystemThe clock above the 25-meter pool stopped at 3:54.33, and up in the stands,...
SwimmingBeneath the Still Surface: The World Swimming Power Map and Vietnam's GapIn the deep green water of a fifty-metre pool, there is a moment when the...
SwimmingThe 15-Metre Mark and the Lane Inside a Swimmer's EyesIn a 100m butterfly final, the stands usually hold their breath from the...
SwimmingVietnamese Swimming and the Data Problem: When a Complete Analytical Framework Remains EmptyOn the electronic scoreboard at a national swimming meet, the result line sho...
SwimmingRegressing Vietnam's Swim Lanes: Why SEA Games Medals Do Not Measure the Gap to Asia's PeakI remember that evening at the aquatic arena, when the electronic scoreboard...
SwimmingGrace Alger and Sacred Heart: When a Breakout Season Is Only a Sample Size of OneGrace Alger entered the Speedo Sectionals in Ithaca as a swimmer who had neve...
SwimmingSwimming and the Lesson of an "Empty" Analysis: When the Source Does Not Exist, the Conclusions Must Be Empty TooIn sports media, a deep analysis is usually measured by how many conclusions ...
Swimming250 Children, One Coach, and the Missing Base of Vietnamese SwimmingA community swim team in Brambleton, Loudoun County, Virginia is hiring a hea...
SwimmingThe Empty Data Sheet of Vietnamese SwimmingThe analysis file ran nine sections long. Each section had tables, rows,...
SwimmingThe Discipline of the Empty Lane: When a Sports Analyst Must Learn to Say 'Insufficient Data'In the press room of a national swimming championship, I once sat before a...
