Martial Arts
The 56kg Leitai: Six Golds Out of Seven, and Vietnam's New Arithmetic
0.133 in Nagoya: Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze and the Debt Frame-by-Frame Judging Owes Us
The Leitai Ledger: A 6-1 Book Over 28 Years, and the Vietnamese Teenager the Scoreboard Still Refuses to Recognise
From 9.703 to 9.710: Duong Thuy Vi’s Four Asiads and the Four Silences Nobody Printed
0.133 in Nagoya: Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze and the Debt Frame-by-Frame Judging Owes UsI live in Nagoya. The 20th Asian Games came to my city, and I watched the...
The Leitai Ledger: A 6-1 Book Over 28 Years, and the Vietnamese Teenager the Scoreboard Still Refuses to RecogniseHook August 2026, Kuala Lumpur. Half past eleven at night outside Bukit Jalil...
From 9.703 to 9.710: Duong Thuy Vi’s Four Asiads and the Four Silences Nobody PrintedThe scoreboard settled for half a second and then held: 9.703. The line benea...
The 56kg Leitai: Six Golds Out of Seven, and Vietnam's New ArithmeticLast month, in Mymensingh, I built a table. Left column: Asian Games editions...
The Nagoya Scoreboard: Duong Thuy Vi's Fourth Asiad Medal, and the Ledger Nobody Keeps for TaoluThere is no referee in taolu. No clock, no knockdown, no stoppage — only a...
A 26-Second Shadow and a 72-Percent Proof: The Flyweight Accounting and the Gap of an Unverified SourceAt 3:20 in the morning in my Incheon flat I opened the notebook, because I ha...
Five to Nothing and a Swollen Knee: The Chapter Nobody Wrote Inside Karate's GoldThe last hour of a gymnasium looks the same everywhere. Chairs fold one into...
Heavier Than the Scale: At UFC 331, Five Rounds, an Old Back and a Fistful of UncertaintyFrom the weigh-in table to the cage door is a walk of one day. Not everyone...
From the Preschool Floor to the Asiad Mat: The Five-Kilogram Sum Behind Lò Thị Phung's DefeatOn the afternoon of 20 September 2026, at the MMA venue of Asiad 20 in Nagoya...
The Register of Empty Columns: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Write Its Own HistoryThe Register of Empty Columns: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Write It...
Ten as One: How Vietnam's Kata Queens Held Asian Games Gold With Short Hair and an Empty MindI didn't watch it live. At 3 a.m. in a Nagoya apartment, a Facebook stream ke...
Four Asiads, Four Medals: Is Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze at 33 Really a Farewell Story?I didn't watch it live. The story broke in Vietnam's sports media, and I...
The Record Nobody Kept: Bangladesh's Undocumented Combat Sports HistoryIn December 2026, forty-seven bouts were fought over three days in the indoor...
The Ledger That Doesn't Stop When the Ring Lights Go OffAfter the sixth bout of last month's card, the chandelier in the hotel ballro...