Swimming
Asian Games Swimming: A Mountain of Gold, a Void of Splits
4:28.56: A Thirteen-Year-Old's Record, and a Country's Empty Lane
Three Golds at the ASIAD, 0.13 Seconds From a Record: Yu Zidi's Water and Mirpur's Empty Lanes
The Five-Million-Dollar Ceiling and One Coach's Contract: The Swimming Story That Isn't a Swimming Story
Swimming4:28.56: A Thirteen-Year-Old's Record, and a Country's Empty LaneDay four of the Asian Games, 5pm local, final. The board lit up with 4:28.56 ...
SwimmingThree Golds at the ASIAD, 0.13 Seconds From a Record: Yu Zidi's Water and Mirpur's Empty LanesThe scoreboard is a bad historian, but a great witness. On 23 September 2026,...
SwimmingThe Five-Million-Dollar Ceiling and One Coach's Contract: The Swimming Story That Isn't a Swimming StoryThree numbers were filed on the Senate vote sheet: 74-24, 77-22, 70-21. Anoth...
SwimmingTonkin Stopped After 55 Years, and We Are Still Looking for a Pool Outside MirpurIn early 2026, a Swimming Australia notice stopped me mid-sip. Peter Tonkin i...
SwimmingSilk Road World Cup: 17 Days, Three Countries, and the Uncomfortable Design of $10,000An extra $10,000 for every new world record. In World Aquatics' recent media...
SwimmingFrom Mirpur Medals to Dallas Cut-Times: The Junior Bangladesh Will Never ExportAt the outdoor Mirpur complex that afternoon in 2026 I did not clap. I counte...
SwimmingA New Chapter in Coach Mental-Health Education: World Aquatics' CORAL Expert SeriesStanding on the bank of the Dhaleshwari River in 2026, I first learned that a...
SwimmingAsian Games Swimming: A Mountain of Gold, a Void of SplitsEleven at night. Beside the outdoor 50m pool in Mirpur, I sit with my laptop...
SwimmingA Seven-Day Meet and a Shut Gate: Why the SEC Format Reform Is Still Worth Reading From BangladeshA Bengali-language original analysis by Towhid Das, a Chattogram-based swimmi...
SwimmingA Gold at Thirteen, Two Minutes Six Seconds: The Questions Yu Zidi's Record Doesn't AnswerSwimmers usually cry after winning. Yu Zidi won, then stood in front of the...
SwimmingThe $39,999 Wall: Ten Years of the Swimming Scoreboard Market, and Three Blank Cells in Bangladesh's LedgerThe deadline says October 30, 2026. The headline says ten years in business....
SwimmingSeven Seconds in One Length: In Asia's 50m Breaststroke, Scarcity Cannot TurnThere is no turn in the 50m breaststroke. One length: the block, the dive, on...
SwimmingThree Golds at the ASIAD, 0.13 Seconds From a Record: Yu Zidi's Water and Mirpur's Empty LanesThe scoreboard is a bad historian, but a great witness. On 23 September 2026,...
SwimmingThe Five-Million-Dollar Ceiling and One Coach's Contract: The Swimming Story That Isn't a Swimming StoryThree numbers were filed on the Senate vote sheet: 74-24, 77-22, 70-21. Anoth...
SwimmingTonkin Stopped After 55 Years, and We Are Still Looking for a Pool Outside MirpurIn early 2026, a Swimming Australia notice stopped me mid-sip. Peter Tonkin i...
SwimmingSilk Road World Cup: 17 Days, Three Countries, and the Uncomfortable Design of $10,000An extra $10,000 for every new world record. In World Aquatics' recent media...
SwimmingFrom Mirpur Medals to Dallas Cut-Times: The Junior Bangladesh Will Never ExportAt the outdoor Mirpur complex that afternoon in 2026 I did not clap. I counte...
SwimmingA New Chapter in Coach Mental-Health Education: World Aquatics' CORAL Expert SeriesStanding on the bank of the Dhaleshwari River in 2026, I first learned that a...
SwimmingAsian Games Swimming: A Mountain of Gold, a Void of SplitsEleven at night. Beside the outdoor 50m pool in Mirpur, I sit with my laptop...
SwimmingA Seven-Day Meet and a Shut Gate: Why the SEC Format Reform Is Still Worth Reading From BangladeshA Bengali-language original analysis by Towhid Das, a Chattogram-based swimmi...
SwimmingA Gold at Thirteen, Two Minutes Six Seconds: The Questions Yu Zidi's Record Doesn't AnswerSwimmers usually cry after winning. Yu Zidi won, then stood in front of the...
SwimmingThe $39,999 Wall: Ten Years of the Swimming Scoreboard Market, and Three Blank Cells in Bangladesh's LedgerThe deadline says October 30, 2026. The headline says ten years in business....
SwimmingSeven Seconds in One Length: In Asia's 50m Breaststroke, Scarcity Cannot TurnThere is no turn in the 50m breaststroke. One length: the block, the dive, on...