Swimming
The Asian Games Swimming Ledger: Seven Golds, a World-Record Claim, and 42 Sourceless Numbers4.27 seconds. In the 400m freestyle at the Tokyo Asian Games (if it really is...
The Seven-Gold Night, an Unverified World Record: The Economics of Asian Games SwimmingTOKYO (as the report claims) — Zhang Zhanshuo, 19, counted his seven gold...
Seven Golds, One Pending Ratification: Depth and Ceiling at the Asian Games PoolThe number on the scoreboard was 3:41.28. At 3:30 a.m. Dhaka time I was sitti...
Why Marchand Is Afraid: Japan's Three Teenagers, One Garbled Record and the Los Angeles LedgerI came back from the bank of the Karnaphuli and sat that night in a Chattogra...
The 0.11-Second Line: Tatjana Smith in Short Course and South Africa's Single FaithThe clock in the 25-metre pool stopped at 1:04.00. Tatjana Smith's own nation...
Gorbenko's 52.11: Third-Best All-Time in SCY Format, But Not on the World StageThe night of the first College Swimming League match. Anastasia Gorbenko of t...
Tatjana Smith's 0.11 Seconds: Close to a Record, Far From the FightThe board reads 1:04.00. The real information is hidden in two other numbers ...
The Price of 48.87: David Davis, Texas A&M, and the Lanes Bangladesh Never BuiltFebruary morning. Rajshahi ghat. I was sitting on the deck of a rented boat,...
22.91 Seconds, One Country, and the Medal the Olympics Does Not CountBefore the lights dim over the gallery there is a sound: feet scraping the...
The 0.74-Second Error in the Ledger: Japan's New Swimmers, Marchand's Fear, and the Numbers Nobody AuditedOn the poolside screen in Nagoya a time burned: 2 minutes 6.59 seconds. The...
1:49.54 in September: A New League's Headline, But the Old Question Is Still the TaperI kept the lane logbook long after the stopwatch stopped mattering. In Decemb...
The Empty Column Under Seven Golds: Asian Games Swimming and a World Record Waiting for a SourceSix results, one table, zero sources. That night the pool produced a handful ...
