Swimming
55.03 Seconds and 660 Days: Auditing a Verbal Commitment in Cal's 2028 Backstroke Class
Before and After the Back Float: 320 Newham Children, an Olympic Pool, and the Ledger Nobody Is Keeping
The Sixteen-Year Record, and the Splits Nobody Kept
Yu Zidi at 13: An Asian Games Gold, a Record, and a Ledger That Refuses to Balance
55.03 Seconds and 660 Days: Auditing a Verbal Commitment in Cal's 2028 Backstroke ClassCal's 2028 recruiting class currently has one name and zero signatures. In...
Before and After the Back Float: 320 Newham Children, an Olympic Pool, and the Ledger Nobody Is KeepingThe fifth session of five. At the shallow end of London Aquatics Centre, a...
Thirteen-Year-Old Yu Zidi, and the Empty Ledger at MirpurThe final of the 200m individual medley at the Asian Games in Japan. The lead...
Five Days, Two and a Half Hours, 780 Children: An Accounting from London's Pool to Rangpur's PondThe small teaching pool at the London Aquatics Centre, last ten minutes of th...
The Sixteen-Year Record, and the Splits Nobody KeptBefore Peng Xuwei entered the last 25 metres I was watching the angle of her...
Yu Zidi at 13: An Asian Games Gold, a Record, and a Ledger That Refuses to BalanceI keep returning to one number — 2 minutes 6.10 seconds. In the 200m individu...
From a 21.96 Fly Split to Wharton: One Admission File, One Timed Lane, and Ours Standing EmptyThe men's 50-yard butterfly final at Ithaca Sectionals stopped the clock at...
Yu Zidi's 4:28.56: The Full Audit of a 13-Year-Old's Asian Games 400m IM Record4:28.56 is the anchor number. On day four of the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya,...