Swimming
October 2026: Nine Meets, Three Clashes, and One Date That Is Almost Certainly Wrong
Stanford's 'Best of the Rest' Chase: Bree Smith's 0.17 Seconds and the Uneven Market of College Swimming
Returning Points and Single-Axis Dependence: Texas Women's Swimming and the Top-Two Equation
2:04.83 — The Record Whose Engine Was the First 100 Metres, Not the Last 50
SwimmingOctober 2026: Nine Meets, Three Clashes, and One Date That Is Almost Certainly WrongHook: A Thirteen-Day World Cup Stop I stopped reading at the Astana date. The...
SwimmingStanford's 'Best of the Rest' Chase: Bree Smith's 0.17 Seconds and the Uneven Market of College SwimmingThe 2026 ACC Championships posted a scoring standard of 22.56 seconds in the...
SwimmingReturning Points and Single-Axis Dependence: Texas Women's Swimming and the Top-Two EquationIn March I went through the NCAA Division I women's swimming points table thr...
Swimming2:04.83 — The Record Whose Engine Was the First 100 Metres, Not the Last 50The clock stopped at 28.27 for the first 50 metres. Elite male 100m...
Swimming3:10.60: China's Asian Record, Pan Zhanle's Shadow, and a Narrowing Asian GapTwenty minutes after winning the 800m freestyle final, Zhang Zhanshuo climbed...
Swimming22.91, Twice: The Gap Behind Bahrain's Gold That Nobody Measures22.91, Twice: The Gap Behind Bahrain's Gold That Nobody Measures In June, in ...
SwimmingFrom 46.41 to 46.98: The 0.57 Seconds Inside Texas's Title Equation0.57 Seconds A pool does not tell the same story twice. In the women's 100-ya...
Swimming16:15.48 — The Yard Clock, the Metre Eye, and Our Empty LedgerAny swimming story, for me, starts with the smell of water, not with a...
Swimming22.91 Twice: Bahrain's First Gold, and the Empty Space Behind ItTwo in the morning. On the balcony of a Chattogram flat, in the blue light of...
Swimming2:04.83 — The Record Shin Ohashi Built in the First Hundred Metres28.27 It is 1 a.m. in Chicago. On the table is my paper run sheet, split into...
Swimming2:04.83 in Nagoya: A World Record, an Unfinished Document, and Asia's Shallow LaneCHITTAGONG, 2:11 A.M. A number on a phone screen: 2:04.83. Out past the windo...