Swimming
IOC Closes 12 Commissions, Keeps 19: A Quiet Room, A Long Ripple Through Aquatics
Full Prize Money and the Lesson of Two Canceled Stops: When Weather Rewrites the Rules of Open Water Swimming
When the Data Is Empty: The Verification Standard Swimming Still Lacks
Kornev Swims 21.28 in the 50m Butterfly: A World Record Written in the First Half
Beneath the Blue Surface: A Swimming Medal Is Written Where No Camera Looks
The Discipline of Empty Data: Why Swimming Analysis Must Sometimes Say "Insufficient Information"
Xu Jiayu, 48.77 Seconds, and the Eight Years It Took to Shave 0.11I learned to count breaths in a 25-metre pool. Six strokes per length, one tu...
IOC Closes 12 Commissions, Keeps 19: A Quiet Room, A Long Ripple Through AquaticsIn February, a cluster of International Olympic Committee commissions quietly...
Mikayla Tan: 0.06 Seconds From the All-American Standard and the Long-Course Silence59.04 seconds. The 2026 NCAA All-American standard: 58.98. A gap of 0.06...
From a Welsh Pool to Pullman: Washington State's Depth Gamble and the Signature of Amy HempenstallIn the winter of 2026, at two short-course pools in Britain, a 17-year-old...
22.36 in Astana: How Pieter Coetze Flipped the World Cup SeriesThe clock in Astana stopped at 22.36. Pieter Coetze touched first and looked ...
Full Prize Money and the Lesson of Two Canceled Stops: When Weather Rewrites the Rules of Open Water SwimmingTwo canceled stops out of four in the 2026 European Open Water Swimming Cup. ...
Emma Redman Breaks 2:10 in the 200 Breaststroke: A Short-Course Yards Result That Cannot Be ConvertedThe scoreboard stopped at 2:09.80. The entire University of Virginia (UVA)...
When the Data Is Empty: The Verification Standard Swimming Still LacksTuesday night, 10:40 p.m., Melbourne. I open a nine-page analysis file. Acros...
Kornev Swims 21.28 in the 50m Butterfly: A World Record Written in the First HalfWhen Egor Kornev touched the wall at the World Cup stop in Tashkent, the...
Beneath the Blue Surface: A Swimming Medal Is Written Where No Camera LooksSummer 2026. I sat in an edit bay in Nha Trang, scrolling slowly through...
The Discipline of Empty Data: Why Swimming Analysis Must Sometimes Say "Insufficient Information"On the night of a regional 400m individual medley final, I sat in front of tw...
MacKenzie Lung Swam 58.89 at NCAAs While Pregnant: The Breath of a Body Carrying TwoThe water broke open in lane four. In the first instant of the women's...
Vietnamese Swimming: The Gap Between SEA Games Medals and the Olympic A-CutWhen the hand touched the wall in the 200-metre freestyle final, the scoreboa...
Cal secures Noelle Benkler for 2028-29: reading a recruiting commitment through swimming dataThere is a 5.2-second gap in Noelle Benkler's profile that almost nobody...
When the Data Goes Quiet: The Craft of Reading a LaneAt the seven-hundredth meter of the women's 800-meter freestyle, what decides...
The Language of Water: Swimming's Power Map and the Silences Before the BellI still remember that morning at a 50-metre pool tucked behind a sports...
Duke Sweeps Davidson in the 2026-2027 Opener: The 246.5-53.5 Scoreline and the Short-Course TrapA 246.5-53.5 scoreline. Duke's women overwhelmed Davidson, the men won 196-10...
US College Swimming, October 5–12: How the College Swimming League Is Reshaping the ScheduleIn this week's roundup of US college swimming schedules — the window from...
Australia Finalises 24-Strong Squad for 2026 Short Course World Championships in Beijing: Three Stars Absent and the 25m Pool EquationA drone shot of the pool deck, credited to Delly Carr for Swimming Australia,...
The Base of the Swimming Pyramid: Inside the Community Machine That Produces America's DepthOne Wednesday evening in late June, in Brambleton in Loudoun County, Virginia...
IOC Closes 12 Commissions, Keeps 19: A Quiet Room, A Long Ripple Through AquaticsIn February, a cluster of International Olympic Committee commissions quietly...
Mikayla Tan: 0.06 Seconds From the All-American Standard and the Long-Course Silence59.04 seconds. The 2026 NCAA All-American standard: 58.98. A gap of 0.06...
From a Welsh Pool to Pullman: Washington State's Depth Gamble and the Signature of Amy HempenstallIn the winter of 2026, at two short-course pools in Britain, a 17-year-old...
22.36 in Astana: How Pieter Coetze Flipped the World Cup SeriesThe clock in Astana stopped at 22.36. Pieter Coetze touched first and looked ...
Full Prize Money and the Lesson of Two Canceled Stops: When Weather Rewrites the Rules of Open Water SwimmingTwo canceled stops out of four in the 2026 European Open Water Swimming Cup. ...
Emma Redman Breaks 2:10 in the 200 Breaststroke: A Short-Course Yards Result That Cannot Be ConvertedThe scoreboard stopped at 2:09.80. The entire University of Virginia (UVA)...
When the Data Is Empty: The Verification Standard Swimming Still LacksTuesday night, 10:40 p.m., Melbourne. I open a nine-page analysis file. Acros...
Kornev Swims 21.28 in the 50m Butterfly: A World Record Written in the First HalfWhen Egor Kornev touched the wall at the World Cup stop in Tashkent, the...
Beneath the Blue Surface: A Swimming Medal Is Written Where No Camera LooksSummer 2026. I sat in an edit bay in Nha Trang, scrolling slowly through...
The Discipline of Empty Data: Why Swimming Analysis Must Sometimes Say "Insufficient Information"On the night of a regional 400m individual medley final, I sat in front of tw...
MacKenzie Lung Swam 58.89 at NCAAs While Pregnant: The Breath of a Body Carrying TwoThe water broke open in lane four. In the first instant of the women's...
Vietnamese Swimming: The Gap Between SEA Games Medals and the Olympic A-CutWhen the hand touched the wall in the 200-metre freestyle final, the scoreboa...
Cal secures Noelle Benkler for 2028-29: reading a recruiting commitment through swimming dataThere is a 5.2-second gap in Noelle Benkler's profile that almost nobody...
When the Data Goes Quiet: The Craft of Reading a LaneAt the seven-hundredth meter of the women's 800-meter freestyle, what decides...
The Language of Water: Swimming's Power Map and the Silences Before the BellI still remember that morning at a 50-metre pool tucked behind a sports...
Duke Sweeps Davidson in the 2026-2027 Opener: The 246.5-53.5 Scoreline and the Short-Course TrapA 246.5-53.5 scoreline. Duke's women overwhelmed Davidson, the men won 196-10...
US College Swimming, October 5–12: How the College Swimming League Is Reshaping the ScheduleIn this week's roundup of US college swimming schedules — the window from...
Australia Finalises 24-Strong Squad for 2026 Short Course World Championships in Beijing: Three Stars Absent and the 25m Pool EquationA drone shot of the pool deck, credited to Delly Carr for Swimming Australia,...
The Base of the Swimming Pyramid: Inside the Community Machine That Produces America's DepthOne Wednesday evening in late June, in Brambleton in Loudoun County, Virginia...