Swimming
Gianna Cook Commits to Monmouth: The 200 Fly Opens the Door, Two Seasons Decide the RestIn mid-February, at the MA JW SuperBowl Splash ABBC, Gianna Cook touched the...
Gianna Cook and Monmouth: When One Stroke Decides Four SeasonsAt Jersey Wahoos, people are used to the sound of water breaking before the s...
Gianna Cook, the Three-Second Equation, and the Data Signal Monmouth Sent from New JerseyA butterfly swimmer cut more than three seconds off her 200 fly in a single...
27.12 Seconds at Age Ten: Decoding Addie Farrier's Butterfly Mark Through ProbabilityThe electronic clock at Doyle Aquatic Center, inside the Long Center in...
Asian Games 2026 in Nagoya: Mapping Swimming's Broadcast and the Price of 700 Free HoursIn Shanghai, to watch swimming live at a continental Games, I usually have to...
700 Hours of Free Swimming from Nagoya: Sports Rights Are Relearning How to BreatheFour in the morning, North American time. Someone in Toronto or Houston sets ...
WADA Releases 2026 Annual Report: Testing Volume Rises, but the Growth Curve Is Flattening and a Funding Gap OpensAt every swim meet there is a stretch of time that never appears on the...
Addie Farrier and the Low Note Beneath Clearwater's Water: When Age Ten Summons the Memory of LegendsThe Doyle Aquatic Center lay silent on that October morning. No roaring...
Addie Farrier, a 27.12-Second 50-Yard Fly, and the Puberty Variable in the 10&U CohortOn an afternoon in Clearwater, Florida, the Long Center pool had just reopene...
WADA Ramps Up Sample Testing, but the Curve Has Already Started to Bend Downward5 a.m. on the corridor of the national swimming pool in Hanoi, the smell of...
WADA 2026: Sample Testing Rises, But the Curve Is Slowing DownIn a national swimming championship locker room a few years ago, a young fema...
An Empty Transfer-Window File and Nine Columns of N/A: A Data Analyst's Lesson in Null HandlingThat night I sat in front of my screen in Hai Phong and opened the Stage-1...
N/A Is Not Failure: Data Voids and the Trap of the Sports AnalystSaigon, July 2026. The city was under Directive 16 lockdown. I sat in front o...
Addie Farrier and 27.12 Seconds: The Line Between a 10-Year-Old Record and the Puberty WallThe number 27.12 seconds says nothing on its own. Place it beside two other...
Addie Farrier and the 27.12-Second 50-Yard Fly: Reading a 10-Year-Old's Data Through a Long-Horizon LensThe Long Center pool in Clearwater, Florida, had just finished renovation and...
Addie Farrier swims 27.12 in the 50-yard fly at age 10: A real record and a shadow no one has measured yetSome numbers tell their whole story on their own. Others only open a door, wi...
