Swimming
Golden Goggle Awards 2026: Three World Records, One Engineered Relay and Several Thin Data Samples
Tatjana Smith Misses South African Record by 0.11 Seconds: The 30.09/33.91 Split Is the Real Data
Vietnamese Swimming After Anh Vien: A Flat Trajectory and the Numbers Nobody Asks About
Indian Swimming Loses a 17-Year-Old Before the Asian Games: An 18-Month Ban and the Gap Behind the Verdict
Night Two at the 2026 Japanese Short Course Championships: A 400 IM World Record and Taniguchi's 0.45-Second LeapOn the scoreboard of the 25-meter pool, two numbers appeared a few minutes...
Lena Ludwig and the Texas Scholarship: Decoding the 50m-to-25-Yard ConversionA photograph posted on social media, nothing special: a young woman in an...
Barcelona 2026: Age Sixteen, Records, and the Forgotten LanesOn a finals night at Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, in August 2026, I sat in a...
Anatomy of a Null Result: When Swimming Analysis Dares to Say "Insufficient Data"The clock on the wall of a Shanghai pool keeps ticking off hundredths of a...
2,500 USD for Five Open Water World Cup Stops: When a Federation Values Athletes by Travel Costs2,500 USD. Not the winner's purse for one stop, not a medal bonus. It is the...
Joshua Collett Shatters Australian, Oceanic 100 Breast Record in 56.61, Triples as All Comers Record56.61 seconds. Three records. One day of competition. When Joshua Collett...
Golden Goggle Awards 2026: Three World Records, One Engineered Relay and Several Thin Data SamplesAt Irvine, California, on a single day of the Pan Pacific Championships, Kate...
Tatjana Smith Misses South African Record by 0.11 Seconds: The 30.09/33.91 Split Is the Real DataThe clock at the 25-metre pool stopped at 1:04.00. Tatjana Smith lifted her...
Peter Tonkin – A 55-year journey of illuminating swimming for Australia's Indigenous communitiesPeter Tonkin – A 55-year journey of illuminating swimming for Australia's...
2026 Asian Games Opening Night: China Sweeps Gold While Japan Sends a Future SignalThe water broke in lane four with the sound of a blade cutting through the...
Cameron McEvoy Tests the 100m Freestyle: The Last Gamble of a 50m ChampionCameron McEvoy steps onto the starting block at the opening leg of the swimmi...
U14 4x50m Relay: When the Pool Leaves No Number BehindThe footage runs under three minutes. A boys U14 relay race, 200 metres...
Vietnamese Swimming After Anh Vien: A Flat Trajectory and the Numbers Nobody Asks AboutIn the men's 200m butterfly final at SEA Games 32, lane 5, where Nguyen Huy...
The Decay Curve: The Hidden Metric That Exposes the Truth Behind Every Swimming RecordI reopened the footage of the men's 200m freestyle final at the recent world...
The World Swimming Map After Paris 2026: The Dance of Speed and the Breath in the VoidThe water at La Défense Arena was flat as glass. Fifteen thousand people held...
19.43 Seconds, a Stopwatch, and the Grey Zone of a "Record" at Arizona StateA stopwatch. A practice session in Tempe, Arizona. A caption on Instagram. Th...
The Sommers twins commit to Grand Canyon: 2:22.69 and the 28 seconds that were converted wrongOn the scoreboard at the Futures meet in Austin, two names sat side by side....
Indian Swimming Loses a 17-Year-Old Before the Asian Games: An 18-Month Ban and the Gap Behind the VerdictSteam rose off the pool surface at five in the morning, and in the instant...
Jackson Kroh picks UC Santa Barbara for fall 2027: The strategic piece behind a patient swimmerIn August, at Summer Juniors, Jackson Kroh touched the wall in the 200m...
Jane Kavanagh to Notre Dame: 1:48.86 at YMCA Can't Hide the 1.98-Second Gap to ACC ScoringOn the final session of YMCA Short Course Nationals, when the scoreboard froz...
Gui Caribe swims 50m freestyle 20.54, Leonardo Alcântara breaks South American record 800m 7:37.47 at Jose Finkel TrophyAt the short course Jose Finkel Trophy swimming meet in Brazil, two young...
56.35 World Junior Record: The Sprint of Japan's 17-Year-Old Prodigy and the Breaststroke Civil WarI sat in front of the screen, rewinding the footage from the Niigata...
Lena Ludwig and the Texas Scholarship: Decoding the 50m-to-25-Yard ConversionA photograph posted on social media, nothing special: a young woman in an...
Barcelona 2026: Age Sixteen, Records, and the Forgotten LanesOn a finals night at Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, in August 2026, I sat in a...
Anatomy of a Null Result: When Swimming Analysis Dares to Say "Insufficient Data"The clock on the wall of a Shanghai pool keeps ticking off hundredths of a...
2,500 USD for Five Open Water World Cup Stops: When a Federation Values Athletes by Travel Costs2,500 USD. Not the winner's purse for one stop, not a medal bonus. It is the...
Joshua Collett Shatters Australian, Oceanic 100 Breast Record in 56.61, Triples as All Comers Record56.61 seconds. Three records. One day of competition. When Joshua Collett...
Golden Goggle Awards 2026: Three World Records, One Engineered Relay and Several Thin Data SamplesAt Irvine, California, on a single day of the Pan Pacific Championships, Kate...
Tatjana Smith Misses South African Record by 0.11 Seconds: The 30.09/33.91 Split Is the Real DataThe clock at the 25-metre pool stopped at 1:04.00. Tatjana Smith lifted her...
Peter Tonkin – A 55-year journey of illuminating swimming for Australia's Indigenous communitiesPeter Tonkin – A 55-year journey of illuminating swimming for Australia's...
2026 Asian Games Opening Night: China Sweeps Gold While Japan Sends a Future SignalThe water broke in lane four with the sound of a blade cutting through the...
Cameron McEvoy Tests the 100m Freestyle: The Last Gamble of a 50m ChampionCameron McEvoy steps onto the starting block at the opening leg of the swimmi...
U14 4x50m Relay: When the Pool Leaves No Number BehindThe footage runs under three minutes. A boys U14 relay race, 200 metres...
Vietnamese Swimming After Anh Vien: A Flat Trajectory and the Numbers Nobody Asks AboutIn the men's 200m butterfly final at SEA Games 32, lane 5, where Nguyen Huy...
The Decay Curve: The Hidden Metric That Exposes the Truth Behind Every Swimming RecordI reopened the footage of the men's 200m freestyle final at the recent world...
The World Swimming Map After Paris 2026: The Dance of Speed and the Breath in the VoidThe water at La Défense Arena was flat as glass. Fifteen thousand people held...
19.43 Seconds, a Stopwatch, and the Grey Zone of a "Record" at Arizona StateA stopwatch. A practice session in Tempe, Arizona. A caption on Instagram. Th...
The Sommers twins commit to Grand Canyon: 2:22.69 and the 28 seconds that were converted wrongOn the scoreboard at the Futures meet in Austin, two names sat side by side....
Indian Swimming Loses a 17-Year-Old Before the Asian Games: An 18-Month Ban and the Gap Behind the VerdictSteam rose off the pool surface at five in the morning, and in the instant...
Jackson Kroh picks UC Santa Barbara for fall 2027: The strategic piece behind a patient swimmerIn August, at Summer Juniors, Jackson Kroh touched the wall in the 200m...
Jane Kavanagh to Notre Dame: 1:48.86 at YMCA Can't Hide the 1.98-Second Gap to ACC ScoringOn the final session of YMCA Short Course Nationals, when the scoreboard froz...
Gui Caribe swims 50m freestyle 20.54, Leonardo Alcântara breaks South American record 800m 7:37.47 at Jose Finkel TrophyAt the short course Jose Finkel Trophy swimming meet in Brazil, two young...
56.35 World Junior Record: The Sprint of Japan's 17-Year-Old Prodigy and the Breaststroke Civil WarI sat in front of the screen, rewinding the footage from the Niigata...
