Swimming
A Thirteen-Year-Old's Clock and 0.13 Seconds: The Question Yu Zidi's Record Leaves on Bangladesh's Table
1:43.49 or 1:43.92 — Two Versions of One Asian Record, and the Split Arithmetic That Rules One Out
Yu Zidi's 400 IM Games Record: 4:28.56, 0.13 Seconds From Ye Shiwen's Asian Mark
1:21.12 and 1:06.49 — The Asian Swimming That Hides in the Seam Between Two Columns
22nd Place and Two Conflicting Numbers: Pakistan's 15-Second Gap in Asian Swimming
One Pool in Mirpur, Seven Days in America: The Format Politics of Swimming
SwimmingA Thirteen-Year-Old's Clock and 0.13 Seconds: The Question Yu Zidi's Record Leaves on Bangladesh's TableThe number on the board was 4:28.56. The age next to it was 13. Day four of...
Swimming1:43.49 or 1:43.92 — Two Versions of One Asian Record, and the Split Arithmetic That Rules One OutTwo numbers are circulating for the same swim. One says 1 minute 43.49 second...
SwimmingOne Pool in Mirpur, Seven Days in America: The Format Politics of SwimmingOne Pool in Mirpur, Seven Days in America: The Format Politics of Swimming Ho...
Swimming51.98 and 29.45: The Fifteen Metres Behind the Record Nobody BroadcastsThe result sheet from night one of Asian Games swimming arrived without split...
SwimmingA $75,000 Job Posting, and the Mirpur Coach Who Drove Six Hours for No LaneIn late September, on a balcony in Vancouver, I was reading a job posting....
SwimmingHareem’s 22nd Place and the Number That Lies: Mapping the Real Crisis in Pakistani SwimmingAt Mirpur, I learned that scarcity has a starting block. In 2026, at the 26th...
SwimmingYu Zidi's 400 IM Games Record: 4:28.56, 0.13 Seconds From Ye Shiwen's Asian MarkThe board in Aichi-Nagoya lit 4:28.56, and beside it, on the lane sheet, a...
Swimming1:21.12 and 1:06.49 — The Asian Swimming That Hides in the Seam Between Two ColumnsThe heat sheet is one page. Beside lane 2, a name; beside the name, a time —...
Swimming22nd Place and Two Conflicting Numbers: Pakistan's 15-Second Gap in Asian SwimmingThe year was 2026. The outdoor 50m complex at Mirpur, my first swimming bylin...
Swimming1:43.49 or 1:43.92 — Two Versions of One Asian Record, and the Split Arithmetic That Rules One OutTwo numbers are circulating for the same swim. One says 1 minute 43.49 second...
SwimmingOne Pool in Mirpur, Seven Days in America: The Format Politics of SwimmingOne Pool in Mirpur, Seven Days in America: The Format Politics of Swimming Ho...
Swimming51.98 and 29.45: The Fifteen Metres Behind the Record Nobody BroadcastsThe result sheet from night one of Asian Games swimming arrived without split...
SwimmingA $75,000 Job Posting, and the Mirpur Coach Who Drove Six Hours for No LaneIn late September, on a balcony in Vancouver, I was reading a job posting....
SwimmingHareem’s 22nd Place and the Number That Lies: Mapping the Real Crisis in Pakistani SwimmingAt Mirpur, I learned that scarcity has a starting block. In 2026, at the 26th...
SwimmingYu Zidi's 400 IM Games Record: 4:28.56, 0.13 Seconds From Ye Shiwen's Asian MarkThe board in Aichi-Nagoya lit 4:28.56, and beside it, on the lane sheet, a...
Swimming1:21.12 and 1:06.49 — The Asian Swimming That Hides in the Seam Between Two ColumnsThe heat sheet is one page. Beside lane 2, a name; beside the name, a time —...
Swimming22nd Place and Two Conflicting Numbers: Pakistan's 15-Second Gap in Asian SwimmingThe year was 2026. The outdoor 50m complex at Mirpur, my first swimming bylin...