Swimming
SwimmingSession Record vs a Freshman's 1:57.45 — Which Number Is the Real One at the Georgia Tech–Emory Meet2026-09-29Last Friday night, on a balcony in Chattogram, I opened the results of an NCA...
SwimmingThe Ledger in Pietermaritzburg: The Day an Olympic Champion Skipped the Final2026-09-27The 2026 South African Short Course Championships hit day three in...
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...
Zombori Sets 200m IM Lifetime Best at Hungarian Nationals, but International Gap RemainsA time of 1:54.54 in the short-course pool gave Gabor Zombori a lifetime best...
The Lane Numbers Were Printed. The Names Were Not.1 a.m. in Chicago. I open the laptop because there is a swimming session to...
A Lesson from Empty Intake: Not a Single Number in Swimming Reporting Without VerificationSwimming is a sport with no room for approximation. Pool length is fixed, lan...
The Empty Cell That Stopped Me After I Counted Seventy-One GoldsWinter 2026, Rajshahi. I was loading eleven weekends of results from the 26th...
Swimming report not produced: the source contains zero information pointsA sports news report of roughly 2,717 words about swimming was requested....
The 0.02-Second Ledger: Coetze's 22.09 in Tashkent and Kolesnikov's Two-Entry Arithmetic in BeijingI re-watched the Tashkent final four times, once at quarter speed. When the...
Amy Hempenstall's Washington State Commitment: An NCAA Deal Under the Shadow of Conference RealignmentFive personal bests across two short-course meets last November and December...
Evolution of Blockchain Technology: A Look Toward 2026Blockchain technology has brought revolutionary changes across a wide range o...
20.13 at a Single Turn: McEvoy's Short-Course Record and Swimming's Two LedgersThe pool in Tashkent is 25 metres long. A 50-metre freestyle here means two...
Tashkent's Wild Card and the World Record Nobody TimedTashkent's Wild Card and the World Record Nobody Timed Tashkent, September...
Nine Events on Tashkent's Psych Sheet, and None in MirpurThe Baku results sheet is printed and lying on my desk, with the Tashkent ent...
Not the Logo, the Gap: Brisbane 2032, a Cockatoo, and a File Misfiled Under SwimmingLast week at seven in the morning a file landed in my inbox, domain-tagged...
Thirty-Three Editions, Zero International Signal: The Dataset Sri Lankan School Water Polo Never KeptFirst leg, 2026. The 33rd Dr. R.L. Hayman Trophy. S. Thomas' College versus...
Session Record vs a Freshman's 1:57.45 — Which Number Is the Real One at the Georgia Tech–Emory MeetLast Friday night, on a balcony in Chattogram, I opened the results of an NCA...
The 25-Metre Arithmetic and the Unwritten Shoulder: Reading Christchurch's Age-Group RecordsOn the board at the first finals session in Christchurch, the number was 57.3...
The Ledger in Pietermaritzburg: The Day an Olympic Champion Skipped the FinalThe 2026 South African Short Course Championships hit day three in...
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...