Martial Arts
The Ledger of the Empty Hall: Accounting for Absence in Bangladeshi Combat Sports
Nagoya's Mat, Three Judges and an Unfinished Ledger: Inside Lò Thị Phung's Quarterfinal Exit
Sanda 56kg Final: The Silence After the Stretcher and the Arithmetic of Three Rounds
A 10-Touch Wall in a 45-Touch Game: Singapore's Épée Bronze Knocks Loudly on Asia's Door, But the Way In Remains Blocked
The Ledger of the Empty Hall: Accounting for Absence in Bangladeshi Combat SportsThe Ledger of the Empty Hall: Accounting for Absence in Bangladeshi Combat...
Teqball's First Medal and a Kata Bronze: Vietnam's Two Ledgers at Asiad 20I was back at my Osaka desk at two in the morning, staring at two numbers on ...
Vietnam's Four Bronzes, One Ceiling, and the Number Nobody CountsFour semifinalists. Three stopped — two by China, one by Iran. What the medal...
The Empty Dossier: The Names Never Written Into Combat Sports' Coverage LedgerIn June 2026 the roof of the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka was humming with heat....
Nagoya's Mat, Three Judges and an Unfinished Ledger: Inside Lò Thị Phung's Quarterfinal ExitOn the afternoon of September 20, in an indoor hall in Nagoya, my notebook...
UFC 331 Co-Main: Tsarukyan's Wrestling vs Ruffy's Knockout — Two Risks the Price Has Not BoughtThe physio table in Los Angeles was still there the morning after. One day...
Sanda 56kg Final: The Silence After the Stretcher and the Arithmetic of Three RoundsTwo in the morning at my Osaka desk. I run the semifinal clip from Hangzhou f...
ASIAD 2026: Vietnam's First Gold Came in Team Kata — Five Flags, Three Women, and Ten Years of PatienceFive judges raised their flags almost together. In kata scoring that reads as...
The Fencing Bronze and the Karate Golds: How 42–41 Turned the Ledger Upside DownElle Koh's blade lit the electronic light. The scoreboard read 42–41, overtim...
A 10-Touch Wall in a 45-Touch Game: Singapore's Épée Bronze Knocks Loudly on Asia's Door, But the Way In Remains Blocked42-41. Overtime. A flick of the wrist. When Elle Koh's final touch lit up the...
42-41 and Then 35-45: Singapore's Fencing Bronze Is a Door, Not a Crown42-41. The last touch of overtime. On the strip at the Aichi Sky Expo, the...
The Piste's Last Hour: Singapore's Épée Bronze, the 42–41 Ledger, and the Korean WallThere is a last hour on the piste that never reaches a scoresheet. After the...
Singapore's Epee Bronze: The Real Scoreboard Says 35–45, Not 42–41When the last touch lit up the electronic scoreboard at the Aichi Sky Expo...
42–41 and 35–45: Reading Singapore's Asian Games Fencing Bronze From Beside NagoyaI did not watch the match live. Forty minutes by train from Nagoya to the Aic...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Numbers Hidden Inside Singapore's Épée BronzeThe scoreboard read 42–41. The problem is that a team épée relay goes to 45...
Teqball's First Medal and a Kata Bronze: Vietnam's Two Ledgers at Asiad 20I was back at my Osaka desk at two in the morning, staring at two numbers on ...
Vietnam's Four Bronzes, One Ceiling, and the Number Nobody CountsFour semifinalists. Three stopped — two by China, one by Iran. What the medal...
The Empty Dossier: The Names Never Written Into Combat Sports' Coverage LedgerIn June 2026 the roof of the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka was humming with heat....
Nagoya's Mat, Three Judges and an Unfinished Ledger: Inside Lò Thị Phung's Quarterfinal ExitOn the afternoon of September 20, in an indoor hall in Nagoya, my notebook...
UFC 331 Co-Main: Tsarukyan's Wrestling vs Ruffy's Knockout — Two Risks the Price Has Not BoughtThe physio table in Los Angeles was still there the morning after. One day...
Sanda 56kg Final: The Silence After the Stretcher and the Arithmetic of Three RoundsTwo in the morning at my Osaka desk. I run the semifinal clip from Hangzhou f...
ASIAD 2026: Vietnam's First Gold Came in Team Kata — Five Flags, Three Women, and Ten Years of PatienceFive judges raised their flags almost together. In kata scoring that reads as...
The Fencing Bronze and the Karate Golds: How 42–41 Turned the Ledger Upside DownElle Koh's blade lit the electronic light. The scoreboard read 42–41, overtim...
A 10-Touch Wall in a 45-Touch Game: Singapore's Épée Bronze Knocks Loudly on Asia's Door, But the Way In Remains Blocked42-41. Overtime. A flick of the wrist. When Elle Koh's final touch lit up the...
42-41 and Then 35-45: Singapore's Fencing Bronze Is a Door, Not a Crown42-41. The last touch of overtime. On the strip at the Aichi Sky Expo, the...
The Piste's Last Hour: Singapore's Épée Bronze, the 42–41 Ledger, and the Korean WallThere is a last hour on the piste that never reaches a scoresheet. After the...
Singapore's Epee Bronze: The Real Scoreboard Says 35–45, Not 42–41When the last touch lit up the electronic scoreboard at the Aichi Sky Expo...
42–41 and 35–45: Reading Singapore's Asian Games Fencing Bronze From Beside NagoyaI did not watch the match live. Forty minutes by train from Nagoya to the Aic...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Numbers Hidden Inside Singapore's Épée BronzeThe scoreboard read 42–41. The problem is that a team épée relay goes to 45...