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New Michael Phelps Fears at ASIAD: Marchand and Japanese Heirs Story
The Succession Ledger in Nagoya: Marchand's Notebook, Japan's Three Teenagers, and the Number That Doesn't Add Up
The 0.11-Second Gap: Tatjana Smith's 30.09/33.91 Split Is a Form Signal, Not a Record Story
The 22.73-Second Transaction: Why Stanford Is Taking a 'Best of the Rest' Sprinter
The 22.73-Second Transaction: Why Stanford Is Taking a 'Best of the Rest' Sprinter22.73 seconds. On a short-course meet in November 2026 with SwimMAC Carolina,...
October 2026: Baku to Astana — A Calendar With No Lane for BangladeshDawn light on the Shitalakshya ghat turns the water the colour of beaten...
New Michael Phelps Fears at ASIAD: Marchand and Japanese Heirs StoryJuly night at an Olympic swimming pool outside Tokyo, Leon Marchand was...
Night of the Skins Race: The Shoulder No Scoreboard RecordsWhat the scoreboard showed at the FMC Natatorium in Westmont, Illinois, is no...
The Succession Ledger in Nagoya: Marchand's Notebook, Japan's Three Teenagers, and the Number That Doesn't Add UpBlock Four at Nagoya My seat at the Nagoya Aquatic Centre was in Block Four,...
Virginia's Dynasty, NC State's Depth and the CSL Format: Where the Stopwatch Has Not Yet SpokenAt two in the morning in Barishal I was following a live results feed from a...
The Scoreboard Is a Blockchain: Curzan–Heilman’s CSL MVP and Bangladesh’s Missing ChainWhen SwimSwam named Claire Curzan and Thomas Heilman the MVPs of CSL Match 2,...
October 2026 — Three Weeks on the Silk Road, a Crowd of 25-Metre Pools, and One Wrong DateThe calendar entry is still in my notebook exactly as I wrote it: 15–27...
The 0.11-Second Gap: Tatjana Smith's 30.09/33.91 Split Is a Form Signal, Not a Record StoryI read the split sheet three times, because the first two times I was looking...