Martial Arts
Four Bronzes in One Day, Yet the Ceiling Sits at the Semifinal: Reading Vietnam's Sanda Ledger2026-09-24Late at night on 23 September, I was at my Dhaka desk reading a two-line agen...
From Push-Stick to the Cage: Lò Thị Phung, the Preschool Teacher Whose Loss Rewrote Asia's Medal Arithmetic2026-09-24September 20, 2026, afternoon. Inside the MMA hall in Aichi-Nagoya there is o...
From 0–5 to Bronze: What the Asiad 20 Kata Scorecard Does Not Say2026-09-24Late in September, sitting inside a small karate dojo in Chattogram, I watche...
Seven Thousandths Between Sword and Spear: Duong Thuy Vi's Fourth Asian Games Medal at 332026-09-24Hook: Morning Deadlock, Afternoon's Seven Thousandths On the morning of 22...
Reading 0.133 Points: Dương Thúy Vi, Vietnamese Wushu Taolu, and the Last Page of a LedgerThree Numbers at 3:40 A.M. On my desk in Dhaka the scoreboard had already...
Four Bronzes in One Day, Yet the Ceiling Sits at the Semifinal: Reading Vietnam's Sanda LedgerLate at night on 23 September, I was at my Dhaka desk reading a two-line agen...
19.413 Points, Five Asian Games, and an Unspoken Retirement: Vietnamese Wushu and the Dương Thúy Vi File19.546, 19.446, 19.413. Placed on one line, three numbers do not catch the ey...
The Semifinal Is Vietnam's Ceiling: How Solid Are Four Bronzes in One Day?I didn't watch it live. At three in the morning in a small Nagoya apartment I...
Papuren, Tomari Bassai, Iran: The Three Steps of Vietnam's First ASIAD GoldOn the afternoon of September 22, as the light began to fall, the verdict in...
UFC 331: Ruffy's 13 Knockouts, Tsarukyan's Back, and the Arithmetic of a −275 LineJust before two in the morning, on a Dhaka balcony, I ran Mauricio Ruffy's...
Excessive fasting: Indian fighter faints at Asiad 2026 — the weight-cut culture that must changeThe sauna clock had passed 30 minutes. Indian fighter Sanyal, competing in th...
The Table Nobody Publishes: Vietnam's First Gold at ASIAD 2026, Team Kata, and an Incomplete AuditThe Table Nobody Publishes: Vietnam's First Gold at ASIAD 2026, Team Kata, an...
Structure Is the Language: Credibility of Sports Data and the Promise of BlockchainNovember 2026. A soundproof studio in Incheon, a five-person crew in a Dhaka...
From Push-Stick to the Cage: Lò Thị Phung, the Preschool Teacher Whose Loss Rewrote Asia's Medal ArithmeticSeptember 20, 2026, afternoon. Inside the MMA hall in Aichi-Nagoya there is o...
The 77 kg Bill: A Fainting After Fasting and Sauna in Nagoya, and Two Different TonesThe train from my flat to the main venue in Nagoya takes forty-eight minutes....
A 70/30 Line, One Unverified Name and One Invisible Variable: A Cautious Read of UFC 331The card at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles starts Saturday evening local tim...
From 0–5 to Bronze: What the Asiad 20 Kata Scorecard Does Not SayLate in September, sitting inside a small karate dojo in Chattogram, I watche...
Two Teenagers on the Leitai: Vietnam's Crack Inside China's 56kg MonopolySix of seven. Since the Bangkok 2026 Asian Games, gold in the men's 56kg sand...
Seven Thousandths Between Sword and Spear: Duong Thuy Vi's Fourth Asian Games Medal at 33Hook: Morning Deadlock, Afternoon's Seven Thousandths On the morning of 22...
Four Bronzes in One Day, Yet the Ceiling Sits at the Semifinal: Reading Vietnam's Sanda LedgerLate at night on 23 September, I was at my Dhaka desk reading a two-line agen...
19.413 Points, Five Asian Games, and an Unspoken Retirement: Vietnamese Wushu and the Dương Thúy Vi File19.546, 19.446, 19.413. Placed on one line, three numbers do not catch the ey...
The Semifinal Is Vietnam's Ceiling: How Solid Are Four Bronzes in One Day?I didn't watch it live. At three in the morning in a small Nagoya apartment I...
Papuren, Tomari Bassai, Iran: The Three Steps of Vietnam's First ASIAD GoldOn the afternoon of September 22, as the light began to fall, the verdict in...
UFC 331: Ruffy's 13 Knockouts, Tsarukyan's Back, and the Arithmetic of a −275 LineJust before two in the morning, on a Dhaka balcony, I ran Mauricio Ruffy's...
Excessive fasting: Indian fighter faints at Asiad 2026 — the weight-cut culture that must changeThe sauna clock had passed 30 minutes. Indian fighter Sanyal, competing in th...
The Table Nobody Publishes: Vietnam's First Gold at ASIAD 2026, Team Kata, and an Incomplete AuditThe Table Nobody Publishes: Vietnam's First Gold at ASIAD 2026, Team Kata, an...
Structure Is the Language: Credibility of Sports Data and the Promise of BlockchainNovember 2026. A soundproof studio in Incheon, a five-person crew in a Dhaka...
From Push-Stick to the Cage: Lò Thị Phung, the Preschool Teacher Whose Loss Rewrote Asia's Medal ArithmeticSeptember 20, 2026, afternoon. Inside the MMA hall in Aichi-Nagoya there is o...
The 77 kg Bill: A Fainting After Fasting and Sauna in Nagoya, and Two Different TonesThe train from my flat to the main venue in Nagoya takes forty-eight minutes....
A 70/30 Line, One Unverified Name and One Invisible Variable: A Cautious Read of UFC 331The card at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles starts Saturday evening local tim...
From 0–5 to Bronze: What the Asiad 20 Kata Scorecard Does Not SayLate in September, sitting inside a small karate dojo in Chattogram, I watche...
Two Teenagers on the Leitai: Vietnam's Crack Inside China's 56kg MonopolySix of seven. Since the Bangkok 2026 Asian Games, gold in the men's 56kg sand...
Seven Thousandths Between Sword and Spear: Duong Thuy Vi's Fourth Asian Games Medal at 33Hook: Morning Deadlock, Afternoon's Seven Thousandths On the morning of 22...