Swimming
780 Children and an Olympic Pool: Jeremiah Carnegie and the Question of Who Gets to Swim
Yumeki Kojima's 4:07.02 at the 2026 Asian Games: A World Junior Record Built in the Final 200 Metres
2026 Asian Games: Day 1 Seed List Reveals the One Place China Can Be Beaten
U14 Boys' 4x50m Relay in Hai Phong: A Final That Left No Benchmark Behind
780 Children and an Olympic Pool: Jeremiah Carnegie and the Question of Who Gets to SwimFour in the afternoon at the London Aquatics Centre is the quietest hour of t...
Yumeki Kojima's 4:07.02 at the 2026 Asian Games: A World Junior Record Built in the Final 200 MetresIn the final 50 metres of the men's 400m individual medley final at the 2026...
Abi Paton Commits to NC State: Roster Depth and the 0.95-Second Gap in the 100 ButterflyThe gap between Abi Paton and a scoring swim at the ACC Championships is 0.95...
Allison Kelly and Virginia's Class of 2028: Reading a Swimming Profile From the Data That Isn't ThereIn the University of Virginia's women's swimming and diving announcement for...
Taylor Thongintra commits to Northwestern: 2.1 seconds between prospect and Big Ten realityEvery summer, American swimming turns its attention to two junior national...
2026 Asian Games: Day 1 Seed List Reveals the One Place China Can Be BeatenThe Day 1 preliminary session of the 2026 Asian Games swimming programme open...
Anatomy of a Swimming Lane: The Nine Layers of Data the Eye Skips OverAt the fifteenth metre of lane four, a swimmer's body breaks the surface. The...
29.50 Seconds and a 0.06 Gap: Tang Qianting Reopens the 50m Breaststroke Lane at the Asian GamesThe starting signal cut through the morning mist still hanging over the pool....
Dissecting the Lane: Nine Data Layers and the Gap in Vietnamese SwimmingTwo minutes, fifteen point seven two seconds. A male swimmer touches the wall...
From Moraga to Provo: The Profile of a Backstroker and the 48.28-Second EquationLet us begin with a number that appears in no news item about him. On August ...
The 2.10-Second Gap: Northwestern Hunts Points in Its Weakest Event, and a 17-Year-Old From CaliforniaTwo numbers in Taylor Thongintra's file cannot sit next to each other on the...
Karina Plaza Commits to Virginia: UVA Fills a Breaststroke Hole With the No. 5 Recruit of the Class of 2028The water went quiet for exactly one beat before the announcer called the nex...
Rutgers Lands First 2028 Verbal Commitment: Caroline Bryan and the Flat 100 Butterfly CurveIn November 2026, a fifteen-year-old girl touched the wall of a 25-yard pool ...
Cameron McEvoy Tests 100m Freestyle at World Cup: A Sprint Veteran's Data GambleIn mid-2026, Cameron McEvoy swam the 50m freestyle in short course meters (SC...
Cameron McEvoy Tests the 100m Freestyle Again: A Hypothesis Without a Data TableOn 29 September, when the Australian Short Course Championships open in...
McEvoy Tests the 100m Free at the World Cup: A Gamble Built on Ten-Year-Old DataA Data Table That Refuses to Update Cameron McEvoy's short-course (25m)...
Cameron McEvoy Testing 100m Freestyle at the World Cup: The Speed-Endurance Problem and the Discretionary PickOn 29 September, when the starting blocks are set over the 25-metre pool at t...
An Empty Sheet at the Extraction Layer: Notes on a Swimming Analysis With No InputAt 3:47 on the morning of August 13, 2026, I opened the output file from the...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Data That Never Reaches the ScoreboardFrom the fourth row of the stands, I heard something the scoreboard never...
46.40 Seconds and the New Map of 100m Freestyle SpeedWhen Pan Zhanle turned at the 50-metre mark of the men's 100m freestyle final...
Swimming's Transfer Window Runs Through the NCAA Portal, Not the PoolIn April 2026, World Aquatics announced a prize of USD 50,000 for every Olymp...
U14 Boys' 4x50m Relay in Hai Phong: A Final That Left No Benchmark Behind19:40, 12 July 2035, the pool of a secondary school in Hai Phong. The...
The 20% Cap in NCAA Swimming: 31 of 42 Power 4 Teams Over the Threshold and a Definition LoopholeOn Florida's 2026-26 roster, 15 of 24 men's swimmers list a hometown outside...
Gianna Cook Chooses Monmouth: Three Seconds, One C Final, and Two Seasons LeftA swimming pool in New Jersey at six in the morning has its own sound. The...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Empty Data Sheet: When Blanks Get Filled With BeliefA results sheet with a single line on it After the final of the men's 1500m...
WADA 2026: Counting Samples and the Silence of TrustIn December 2026, I stayed behind alone in a small room in Da Nang, after the...
WADA 2026: The 0.78% Flatline, an $8.3 Million Hole and the January 1, 2027 DeadlineThree years. One flat line. In the latest annual report from the World...
Yumeki Kojima's 4:07.02 at the 2026 Asian Games: A World Junior Record Built in the Final 200 MetresIn the final 50 metres of the men's 400m individual medley final at the 2026...
Abi Paton Commits to NC State: Roster Depth and the 0.95-Second Gap in the 100 ButterflyThe gap between Abi Paton and a scoring swim at the ACC Championships is 0.95...
Allison Kelly and Virginia's Class of 2028: Reading a Swimming Profile From the Data That Isn't ThereIn the University of Virginia's women's swimming and diving announcement for...
Taylor Thongintra commits to Northwestern: 2.1 seconds between prospect and Big Ten realityEvery summer, American swimming turns its attention to two junior national...
2026 Asian Games: Day 1 Seed List Reveals the One Place China Can Be BeatenThe Day 1 preliminary session of the 2026 Asian Games swimming programme open...
Anatomy of a Swimming Lane: The Nine Layers of Data the Eye Skips OverAt the fifteenth metre of lane four, a swimmer's body breaks the surface. The...
29.50 Seconds and a 0.06 Gap: Tang Qianting Reopens the 50m Breaststroke Lane at the Asian GamesThe starting signal cut through the morning mist still hanging over the pool....
Dissecting the Lane: Nine Data Layers and the Gap in Vietnamese SwimmingTwo minutes, fifteen point seven two seconds. A male swimmer touches the wall...
From Moraga to Provo: The Profile of a Backstroker and the 48.28-Second EquationLet us begin with a number that appears in no news item about him. On August ...
The 2.10-Second Gap: Northwestern Hunts Points in Its Weakest Event, and a 17-Year-Old From CaliforniaTwo numbers in Taylor Thongintra's file cannot sit next to each other on the...
Karina Plaza Commits to Virginia: UVA Fills a Breaststroke Hole With the No. 5 Recruit of the Class of 2028The water went quiet for exactly one beat before the announcer called the nex...
Rutgers Lands First 2028 Verbal Commitment: Caroline Bryan and the Flat 100 Butterfly CurveIn November 2026, a fifteen-year-old girl touched the wall of a 25-yard pool ...
Cameron McEvoy Tests 100m Freestyle at World Cup: A Sprint Veteran's Data GambleIn mid-2026, Cameron McEvoy swam the 50m freestyle in short course meters (SC...
Cameron McEvoy Tests the 100m Freestyle Again: A Hypothesis Without a Data TableOn 29 September, when the Australian Short Course Championships open in...
McEvoy Tests the 100m Free at the World Cup: A Gamble Built on Ten-Year-Old DataA Data Table That Refuses to Update Cameron McEvoy's short-course (25m)...
Cameron McEvoy Testing 100m Freestyle at the World Cup: The Speed-Endurance Problem and the Discretionary PickOn 29 September, when the starting blocks are set over the 25-metre pool at t...
An Empty Sheet at the Extraction Layer: Notes on a Swimming Analysis With No InputAt 3:47 on the morning of August 13, 2026, I opened the output file from the...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Data That Never Reaches the ScoreboardFrom the fourth row of the stands, I heard something the scoreboard never...
46.40 Seconds and the New Map of 100m Freestyle SpeedWhen Pan Zhanle turned at the 50-metre mark of the men's 100m freestyle final...
Swimming's Transfer Window Runs Through the NCAA Portal, Not the PoolIn April 2026, World Aquatics announced a prize of USD 50,000 for every Olymp...
U14 Boys' 4x50m Relay in Hai Phong: A Final That Left No Benchmark Behind19:40, 12 July 2035, the pool of a secondary school in Hai Phong. The...
The 20% Cap in NCAA Swimming: 31 of 42 Power 4 Teams Over the Threshold and a Definition LoopholeOn Florida's 2026-26 roster, 15 of 24 men's swimmers list a hometown outside...
Gianna Cook Chooses Monmouth: Three Seconds, One C Final, and Two Seasons LeftA swimming pool in New Jersey at six in the morning has its own sound. The...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Empty Data Sheet: When Blanks Get Filled With BeliefA results sheet with a single line on it After the final of the men's 1500m...
WADA 2026: Counting Samples and the Silence of TrustIn December 2026, I stayed behind alone in a small room in Da Nang, after the...
WADA 2026: The 0.78% Flatline, an $8.3 Million Hole and the January 1, 2027 DeadlineThree years. One flat line. In the latest annual report from the World...
