Swimming
SwimmingKiera Powers Commits to Ohio State: The IM Profile, the Improvement Curve and the Roster Math2026-09-23On the starting block of a relay leg, nobody puts a hand on your shoulder. No...
SwimmingVietnamese Swimming before ASIAD 2026: What Has the Body Been Saying?2026-09-20There are injuries that do not live in tendons or muscles, but in the way we...
SwimmingWADA Ramps Up Sample Testing but the Pace Is Slowing: The Cracks Behind the 2026 Annual Report2026-09-17On the night of August 3, 2026, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, I stood in the...
SwimmingWADA 2026 Annual Report: Testing Rises by 9,100 Samples as Adverse-Finding Rate Holds at 0.78%2026-09-16The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has released its 2026 annual report in...
SwimmingThe Slow Count of Clear Water: WADA 2026 and a Headline That Doesn't Add Up2026-09-16The Slow Count of Clear Water Four in the morning, a hotel corridor where a...
SwimmingWADA 2026 Report: Testing Volume Rises, But The Growth Curve Is Flattening2026-09-16People look at 297,965 and call it progress. I look at the gap between two...
2026 Golden Goggles: Reading the Mixed Medley Relay Lineup Instead of the Winners ListDenver, one evening in the middle of an Olympic cycle. No lane water, no...
Anders Koschmann and Northwestern: The 3.48-Second Problem for a BackstrokerOn SwimSwam's recruiting channel, Anders Koschmann is introduced by two times...
Anastasia Gorbenko Swims 52.11 in the 100 IM at CSL Match 1: A Third-Best All-Time Mark and the Limits of a Format Without World RecordsWhen the scoreboard at Match 1 of the College Swimming League flashed 52.11...
Alex Siegel Chooses UVA: A Two-Year Verbal Pledge and the Undervalued Open-Water LaneOne morning I sat watching an overhead replay of a 10km open-water race, and...
Anastasia Gorbenko, 52.11 Seconds and the Third Step of an Unnamed EraThe clock stopped at 52.11. No roar broke out around the pool. There was only...
Shin Ohashi's 2:04.83: The First Sub-2:05 in 200m Breaststroke History and the Questions Still OpenIn the split table of the men's 200m breaststroke, the number 59.89 at the 10...
Kiera Powers Commits to Ohio State: The IM Profile, the Improvement Curve and the Roster MathOn the starting block of a relay leg, nobody puts a hand on your shoulder. No...
Gan Ching Hwee's 1500m Lane: Asian Silver and a Forty-Second GapAround the women's 1500m freestyle lane, the sound that rises before the...
Vietnamese Swimming before ASIAD 2026: What Has the Body Been Saying?There are injuries that do not live in tendons or muscles, but in the way we...
The Empty Split Sheet at the SEA Games and the Price of a Rushed ConclusionIn the official results file for the men's 1,500m freestyle at the 30th SEA...
Cameron McEvoy and the 100m Freestyle Gamble: The 50m King Chasing a Relay Berth With Stale DataNumbers do not lie, but they know how to hide something. In the Excel file I...
Gianna Cook Commits to Monmouth: A 2:10.05 in the 200 Fly and the CAA Scoring MathWinter in New Jersey, One Scoreboard, and Three Seconds Winter 2026, on the...
Gianna Cook Commits to Monmouth: The 200 Fly Opens the Door, the 100 Free Lane Stays UnswumIn February 2026, at the MA JW SuperBowl Splash ABBC, a seventeen-year-old gi...
Nagoya 2026: The Free-Distribution Experiment Sending 700 Hours of Asian Swimming to North AmericaI walk from Nagoya Station to the Sakae district every morning, and this week...
WADA Ramps Up Sample Testing but the Pace Is Slowing: The Cracks Behind the 2026 Annual ReportOn the night of August 3, 2026, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, I stood in the...
WADA 2026 Annual Report: Testing Rises by 9,100 Samples as Adverse-Finding Rate Holds at 0.78%The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has released its 2026 annual report in...
2026 Asian Games in Nagoya: 700 Hours of Free Swimming and North America's Viewing-Rights PuzzleOn the night of September 19, 2026, the swimming prelims at the Asian Games...
Anders Koschmann and Northwestern: The 3.48-Second Problem for a BackstrokerOn SwimSwam's recruiting channel, Anders Koschmann is introduced by two times...
Anastasia Gorbenko Swims 52.11 in the 100 IM at CSL Match 1: A Third-Best All-Time Mark and the Limits of a Format Without World RecordsWhen the scoreboard at Match 1 of the College Swimming League flashed 52.11...
Alex Siegel Chooses UVA: A Two-Year Verbal Pledge and the Undervalued Open-Water LaneOne morning I sat watching an overhead replay of a 10km open-water race, and...
Anastasia Gorbenko, 52.11 Seconds and the Third Step of an Unnamed EraThe clock stopped at 52.11. No roar broke out around the pool. There was only...
Shin Ohashi's 2:04.83: The First Sub-2:05 in 200m Breaststroke History and the Questions Still OpenIn the split table of the men's 200m breaststroke, the number 59.89 at the 10...
Kiera Powers Commits to Ohio State: The IM Profile, the Improvement Curve and the Roster MathOn the starting block of a relay leg, nobody puts a hand on your shoulder. No...
Gan Ching Hwee's 1500m Lane: Asian Silver and a Forty-Second GapAround the women's 1500m freestyle lane, the sound that rises before the...
Vietnamese Swimming before ASIAD 2026: What Has the Body Been Saying?There are injuries that do not live in tendons or muscles, but in the way we...
The Empty Split Sheet at the SEA Games and the Price of a Rushed ConclusionIn the official results file for the men's 1,500m freestyle at the 30th SEA...
Cameron McEvoy and the 100m Freestyle Gamble: The 50m King Chasing a Relay Berth With Stale DataNumbers do not lie, but they know how to hide something. In the Excel file I...
Gianna Cook Commits to Monmouth: A 2:10.05 in the 200 Fly and the CAA Scoring MathWinter in New Jersey, One Scoreboard, and Three Seconds Winter 2026, on the...
Gianna Cook Commits to Monmouth: The 200 Fly Opens the Door, the 100 Free Lane Stays UnswumIn February 2026, at the MA JW SuperBowl Splash ABBC, a seventeen-year-old gi...
Nagoya 2026: The Free-Distribution Experiment Sending 700 Hours of Asian Swimming to North AmericaI walk from Nagoya Station to the Sakae district every morning, and this week...
WADA Ramps Up Sample Testing but the Pace Is Slowing: The Cracks Behind the 2026 Annual ReportOn the night of August 3, 2026, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, I stood in the...
WADA 2026 Annual Report: Testing Rises by 9,100 Samples as Adverse-Finding Rate Holds at 0.78%The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has released its 2026 annual report in...
2026 Asian Games in Nagoya: 700 Hours of Free Swimming and North America's Viewing-Rights PuzzleOn the night of September 19, 2026, the swimming prelims at the Asian Games...
