Swimming
Claire Curzan and Thomas Heilman Are CSL Match 2 MVPs: What the Points Sheet Says, and What It Buries
The Record in the Wrong Drawer: Asian Games 2026, Marchand's Shadow and Japan's Three Swimmers
No Time on the Touchpad, Still a 'Loaded Match-Up': America's New College Swim League and Our Unwritten Three Years
Gold Flat, Medals Down: The Real Signal Inside China's Asian Games Swimming Ledger
Gold Flat, Medals Down: The Real Signal Inside China's Asian Games Swimming LedgerThe finals went off at five in the afternoon local time. In Los Angeles it wa...
Claire Curzan and Thomas Heilman Are CSL Match 2 MVPs: What the Points Sheet Says, and What It BuriesThe CSL Match 2 MVP sheet landed on my laptop around eleven at night in Bosto...
No McIntosh, No Kharun: Canada's Short Course Roster, the Vacated Gold Room, and the Numbers Still UnverifiedThe Beijing pool fills in the first week of December. On a 25-metre course, t...
The Record in the Wrong Drawer: Asian Games 2026, Marchand's Shadow and Japan's Three SwimmersAt 2:07 in the morning in Chicago, the outside air sat at three degrees Celsi...
No Time on the Touchpad, Still a 'Loaded Match-Up': America's New College Swim League and Our Unwritten Three YearsOn a winter morning in 2026 I sat in a country boat on the Shitalakshya with ...
October 2026 Swimming: Three Silk Road Weekends, Three Meets in the Last Two Days, and One Wrong DateAt the outdoor 50m pool in Mirpur, rain stopped the heats twice during the 20...
Six Trophies and One Preseason Ranking: The Real Story of the Virginia–NC State Meet Is Not on the Timing Board“The swimming last night was fast.” It is the most honest sentence in the...
CSL Match 2: Virginia's Dynasty, NC State's Depth — and What the Headline Doesn't SayFour programs dived in for match two of the CSL last night. Virginia, NC Stat...
Tatjana Smith's 1:04.00: The Front Half of a Short-Course Swim and 0.11 Seconds From a RecordA 25-meter pool. South Africa's domestic short-course championship. The women...
Gorbenko's 52.11: A 'No. 3 All-Time' That Lives Outside Every World Record Book52.11 seconds. Put it on a table and it lands in a cell labelled third-fastes...