Swimming
SwimmingTwenty-Nine Point Five Zero Is Not Enough: Tatjana Smith's Return, a New Olympic Event, and the Empty Ledger2026-09-26The number flashed on the board before anyone in the stands had finished...
SwimmingThe Empty Column Next to 48.87: David Davis, Texas A&M, and the Unwritten Part of a Recruiting File2026-09-26It is nearly two in the morning in a Chicago apartment. On the screen sits a...
SwimmingThirty Days on the Silk Road: What October 2026's 25-Metre Calendar Hides About Swimming2026-09-26Thirty Days on the Silk Road: What October 2026's 25-Metre Calendar Hides Abo...
SwimmingTwelve Names on a Fort Lauderdale Stage, One Ledger on the Mirpur Deck2026-09-26On the deck of the open 50-metre pool in Mirpur I learned my first real...
SwimmingThe Gap Between 16:15.48 and 2:02.71: Alex Siegel, Virginia, and the Grammar of Distance2026-09-26I keep filming the pond until the ripple explains the stone. In Alex Siegel's...
SwimmingThe Unrecorded Shoulder of the Skins Race: What College Swimming League's First Match Left Behind2026-09-26Hook Barry Revzin of SwimSwam spoke to coaches, athletes and the league's chi...
Twenty-Nine Point Five Zero Is Not Enough: Tatjana Smith's Return, a New Olympic Event, and the Empty LedgerThe number flashed on the board before anyone in the stands had finished...
The Unrecorded Shoulder of the Skins Race: What College Swimming League's First Match Left BehindHook Barry Revzin of SwimSwam spoke to coaches, athletes and the league's chi...
Seven Golds, Half the Arithmetic: Zhang Zhanshuo's Shoulder and the Mechanism Behind Shin Ohashi's 2:04.83Zhang Zhanshuo was counting seven gold medals on his fingers. He is not yet...
ISHOF Class of 2027: From a 27-Metre Platform to the Pond Outside MirpurI was in Rangpur, reading the announcement on a small phone screen, when one...
The Empty Column Next to 48.87: David Davis, Texas A&M, and the Unwritten Part of a Recruiting FileIt is nearly two in the morning in a Chicago apartment. On the screen sits a...
0.17 Seconds: Bree Smith Joins Stanford's Class of 2031, and the Arithmetic of Two Lanes22.73 Bree Smith's short-course-yards personal best in the 50 freestyle. The...
The 22.91 Repeat: Bahrain's First Swimming Gold and an Event Missing from the Olympic ProgrammeThe number came back twice: 22.91. In June, swimming in France, Michel...
Thirty Days on the Silk Road: What October 2026's 25-Metre Calendar Hides About SwimmingThirty Days on the Silk Road: What October 2026's 25-Metre Calendar Hides Abo...
Twelve Names on a Fort Lauderdale Stage, One Ledger on the Mirpur DeckOn the deck of the open 50-metre pool in Mirpur I learned my first real...
2:04.83 — What Shin Ohashi's Opening 100 Tells Us, and What It BuriesThe air over the Aichi-Nagoya pool had settled into a thin film on the water....
Texas Women's Top-2 Push: Cox's Double, Okaro's Conversion Gap, and the Five-for-Five MathWhen the 1650-yard freestyle final ended at the 2026 NCAA Division I Women's...
Gorbenko's 52.11: An All-Time Top Three Inside 25 Yards, and the Arithmetic That Never Crosses a BorderI watch the clock more than I watch the swimmer. That habit was formed in...
The Gap Between 16:15.48 and 2:02.71: Alex Siegel, Virginia, and the Grammar of DistanceI keep filming the pond until the ripple explains the stone. In Alex Siegel's...