Swimming
Nine Races, 650 Yards, Zero Clocks: The Jefimova MVP That Measured Volume, Not Speed
Twenty Athletes, Seven Countries and a 4x4: Where Water Polo's Real Bottleneck Actually Sits
Billy Doughty Named U.S. Head Coach for 2026 World Short Course Swimming Championships
Behind Missouri Tigers' 32 Event Wins: Three Hidden Data Defects
Tenero to Razanac: Full Prize Money on a Half Season, and What European Open Water's Decision Teaches Bangladesh
34 Swimmers Earn Wild Cards for Beijing 2026 as World Cup Performances Reshape Championship QualificationWorld Aquatics has confirmed 34 wild-card swimmers representing 18 countries...
Nine Races, 650 Yards, Zero Clocks: The Jefimova MVP That Measured Volume, Not SpeedThere were clocks in the Indianapolis pool. There are no times in the report....
Twenty Athletes, Seven Countries and a 4x4: Where Water Polo's Real Bottleneck Actually SitsIn December 2026 the outdoor 50-metre pool in Mirpur was hosting the 26th...
Billy Doughty Named U.S. Head Coach for 2026 World Short Course Swimming ChampionshipsIntroduction: A New Face, A New Responsibility USA Swimming has named Billy...
Behind Missouri Tigers' 32 Event Wins: Three Hidden Data DefectsWhen I turned over the results sheet for Missouri versus Southern Illinois, t...
The Empty Ledger: A Swimming Report With No Swimmer and No TimeIn my house in Rajshahi there is a ledger where I have kept the medal counts ...
Tenero to Razanac: Full Prize Money on a Half Season, and What European Open Water's Decision Teaches BangladeshThe mist over Lake Tenero had barely lifted when the news came through. Two o...
A Nine-Point Title, Thirteen Silent Years: The Number Mississippi Class 3 Never PrintedLewisburg's boys won their first state title by nine points. Madison Central'...
22.75: The Record Written in a 25-Metre Pool, and the Question That Wasn'tHook: What the Scoreboard Said, and What It Didn't Three things were on the...
A Solo 7:33.79 and a Two-Month Silence: What Ahmed Jaouadi's 2026 Really ProvesScoreboard before adjective. So the number first: 7 minutes 33.79 seconds — t...
Seven Buyer Types, Four Ledger Lines: Auditing Bangladesh's Pool Ledger Against a Single Job PostingA job posting landed on my desk last week. An American swim retailer is looki...
Two Dynasties, One Stand: Fort Mill and Eastside's Quiet Grip on South Carolina 5ANine of eleven individual boys' events went to Eastside. All three relays wen...
The Empty Ledger of Swimming: The Records Bangladesh Never Wrote DownAt the edge of the open 50-metre pool in Mirpur, I carry two things — a...
The Data Monk's Ledger: The Warning That Is Born From an Empty InputIn the 2026 Russia World Cup, I logged 4,196 shots from 64 matches into a...
The Empty Ledger, the Full River: The Swimming Record Bangladesh Never KeepsJune 2026. The Syed Nazrul Islam National Swimming Complex in Mirpur. The...
22.09 in Tashkent: Coetze's World Record and a Name From This City Four Decades AgoI went looking for the record and found the city first. Tashkent. When the...
CSL Match 3: The Shoulder, Turn, and Taper Questions to Ask Before Reading October's 'Fast' SwimsThe water that settles in the outdoor Mirpur pool on an October morning is...
A Futures Champion Headline Sells More Than the Timing Table DeliversLast week, scrolling the college-recruiting channel for swimming, I stopped a...
4:28.39 — The Night a Supersuit Shadow Was Erased by 0.33 SecondsThe digital scoreboard at Sydney's 25m pool lit up 4:28.39 on the second...