Martial Arts
The Semifinal Ceiling: Vietnam's Four Sanda Bronzes and the Arithmetic of a Medal Day
Five Judges, 0.42 Points: What Vietnam's Team Kata Gold at the Asian Games Actually Says
Twelve Seconds, Five Rounds and a Three-Second Lag: What the Crowd Read First at UFC 331
Ring Accounts, Ledger Politics: The Gap of Verifiable Records in Bangladesh's Combat Sports
Five Judges, 0.42 Points: What Vietnam's Team Kata Gold at the Asian Games Actually SaysFive Judges, 0.42 Points: What Vietnam's Team Kata Gold at the Asian Games...
Twelve Seconds, Five Rounds and a Three-Second Lag: What the Crowd Read First at UFC 331In a small viewing room in Colombo, the TV feed lagged roughly three seconds...
The Semifinal Ceiling: Vietnam's Four Sanda Bronzes and the Arithmetic of a Medal DaySeptember 23, evening. Vietnamese sports desks kept repeating one phrase — a...
Ring Accounts, Ledger Politics: The Gap of Verifiable Records in Bangladesh's Combat SportsLate last week a Stage-2 analysis report landed on my Incheon desk. No...
Five Cards, One Verdict: Vietnam's Kata Gold and the Real Pipeline MathThe judges' cards rise before the result does. In the women's team kata final...
42–41 and 35–45: How Singapore's Fencing Bronze Raises a Classification QuestionNobody counts a sword. I do. I count the seconds because every athlete is...
A 0.133-Point Ledger: Dương Thúy Vi, Vietnam's Evergreen Wushu Tree, and the Successor Still MissingThe taolu hall at the 20th Asian Games. Three numbers on the scoreboard —...
Three Takeaways from UFC 331: A 24-Year-Old's Crown, a 12-Second Collapse, and the Lightweight 'Golden Era' That Doesn't Add UpHook I did not watch it live. I was in a Nagoya apartment at 3:20 a.m.,...
The Empty Column in the Ledger: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and Four Decades of My Account BookAt half past three in the morning, my tea has gone cold in the Bangkok flat. ...
Singapore's Épée Bronze: A 42–41 Scoreline, Korea's Ten-Touch Wall, and the Real Pipeline LedgerThe scoreboard at the Aichi Sky Expo stopped short of 45. Singapore beat...
42–41: The Touch That Made Singapore's History, and the Ten-Touch Gap It Could Not Erase42–41. I could not take my eyes off the phone screen until the last touch lit...
One Touch, Three Medals, and an Empty Gymnasium Four Thousand Miles AwayThe scoreboard at the Aichi Sky Expo read 42–41 in the women's team épée...