Martial Arts
Barcelos Was Ahead on All Three Cards — Then Came One SlamA few seconds remained on the clock in the fifth round inside a Las Vegas...
Bronze Born at the Semifinal: How Vietnam's Wushu Haul Should Be ReadIt was three in the morning Japan time when the stream opened, and I had the...
42–41: The Geometry Nobody Noticed Inside Singapore's Épée BronzeI left the print desk for fourteen freeze-frames, and never looked back —...
The Number That Matters Isn't 42–41, It's 35–45: Inside Singapore's Fencing Breakthrough1 a.m., Bangsar. A mamak stall on Jalan Telawi, a plastic chair, a glass of t...
42–41: The Scoreline the Asian Games Never Filed11:30 p.m. in Mymensingh. On my phone screen, a hall inside the Aichi Sky Exp...
42-41 and 35-45: Singapore's Épée Bronze, Read Against a Keeper's Own LedgerThe last touch on the piste at the Aichi Sky Expo pushed the board to 42-41....
The Ledger of a Single Touch: Singapore's Épée Bronze and Fencing's Unwritten Balance Sheet42–41. The final touch in overtime came off Elle Koh's blade, and Singapore's...
42–41: The Touch That Wrote Singapore Fencing History — With a Medal Raised From a DefeatHook: The Green Light, and the Ten Touches Behind It Aichi Sky Expo sits one...
42–41: The Number Inside Singapore's Épée Bronze That Doesn't Add UpIt was 2:07 a.m. I was sitting on the small balcony of my Dhaka flat with a...
A Ten-Touch Gap: How Singapore's Épée Bronze Redrew a Line on Asia's Fencing MapThe fencing hall in Borella, Colombo, has six pistes, a centre line drawn on...
The 42nd Touch: Inside Singapore's Historic Women's Épée Team BronzeThe fencing hall at the Asian Games was wrapped in electric silence. The...
42–41: The Real Number Behind Singapore's Bronze Is 35–45At the Aichi Sky Expo, beside piste three, a small pocket of maybe 150 people...
42–41: The Ten-Touch Gap Hidden Inside Singapore's Épée BronzeThe scoring display read 41–41. It was the final relay of the quarter-final,...
42–41 and 35–45: Singapore's Épée Bronze, Where History Ends and the Gap BeginsHook: The Number That Didn't Fit the Rule The board read 42–41. Team épée is...
42–41: Singapore's First Fencing Medal, and the Touch Sheet Nobody PublishedEleven-thirty at night, Mymensingh. A number was stuck on my phone screen:...