Swimming
Eleven Hundredths: The 25-Metre Ledger, Tatjana Smith's Comeback, and Our Own Water Debt
Eleven Hundredths Away: What Tatjana Smith's Comeback Numbers Say, and What They Bury
Tatjana Smith's Return: A New Olympic Event, One Single Time, and a Federation's Unpaid Ledger
30 Golds Beneath 54 Medals: Where I Stopped Reading the 2026 Asian Games Swimming Table
The 0.17-Second Bet: Bree Smith and Stanford's Sprint Future
30 Golds Beneath 54 Medals: Where I Stopped Reading the 2026 Asian Games Swimming Table30 Golds Beneath 54 Medals: Where I Stopped Reading the 2026 Asian Games...
The 0.17-Second Bet: Bree Smith and Stanford's Sprint FutureBree Smith, a sprint freestyler from Lowell, North Carolina, has given a verb...
The Record Night in Asian Games Swimming: 3:41.28, a Seventeen-Year-Old's Arm, and Mirpur's Empty GhatHook At seven in the morning the sun at the Mirpur outdoor 50m pool falls...
16:15.48 vs 2:02.71: Alex Siegel Is Not One Line in Virginia's Ledger, She Is TwoA recruiting post printed two numbers side by side. The first was 16:15.48 —...
From 48.87 to 56.51: The Number That Never Made Texas A&M's HeadlineLate November, Khulna. At two in the morning I set two numbers side by side:...
Eleven Hundredths: The 25-Metre Ledger, Tatjana Smith's Comeback, and Our Own Water DebtThe Class Across the Karnaphuli The swimming class on the Karnaphuli bank end...
Eleven Hundredths Away: What Tatjana Smith's Comeback Numbers Say, and What They BuryThe women's 100m breaststroke final is over. The board reads 1:04.00....
28.27 Seconds: The Split That Explains Shin Ohashi's World Record — and the Split That Exposes HimWhen the board in Aichi-Nagoya flashed 2:04.83, the first number I wrote in m...
CSL Match One: The Format Won, the Clock Is Still OwedWestmont, Illinois. FMC Natatorium. The first match of the College Swimming...
The Empty Cell on the Psych Sheet: What the New College Swim League Is Really ShowingI read the psych sheet three times, and each time I looked for a name that wa...
Tatjana Smith's Return: A New Olympic Event, One Single Time, and a Federation's Unpaid LedgerLast week in Chattogram I was flipping through my “Water Stories” notebook an...