Martial Arts
Not the Blade, the Budget: Singapore's First Fencing Bronze and Bangladesh's Four Missing Karate Golds
A Fifth Round That Left on a Stretcher: Barcelos's "I'm Doing Great" and the Silence That Follows
Three Matches, Three 5-0 Sweeps: Vietnam's Kata Gold and the Ledger Line Nobody Audited
The Last Two Minutes of Round Five: The Ledger Behind Leaving on a Stretcher While Ahead on the Cards
Five Judges, One Verdict: The Gap Inside Vietnam's Team Kata Gold
Martial ArtsA Fifth Round That Left on a Stretcher: Barcelos's "I'm Doing Great" and the Silence That FollowsThe arena roof lights were still on. A few minutes earlier the main event of...
Martial ArtsThree Matches, Three 5-0 Sweeps: Vietnam's Kata Gold and the Ledger Line Nobody AuditedIran's three kata athletes stepped off the mat in the final, and the panel's...
Martial ArtsThe Last Two Minutes of Round Five: The Ledger Behind Leaving on a Stretcher While Ahead on the CardsIt was half past three on the clock in Mymensingh. I was holding the stream o...
Martial ArtsFive Judges, One Verdict: The Gap Inside Vietnam's Team Kata GoldOn the scoreboard, five flags leaned the same way. In the women's team kata a...
Martial ArtsOne Touch, One Bronze, One Empty Pathway: The Question Singapore's Fencing Breakthrough Places Before BangladeshOn the Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. In June 20...
Martial ArtsCan Blockchain Become the New Referee of Sports Data Transparency?In 2026, at 43, I left an 11-year print desk to launch a tactics blog with...
Martial Arts5-0, 5-0, Then Iran: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's First Asian Games Gold22 September 2026, late afternoon turning to evening. Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. Th...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger of the Mat: Five Judges' Ballots, Vietnam's Kata, and One Date Still Waiting for VerificationThe Ledger of the Mat: Five Judges' Ballots, Vietnam's Kata, and One Date Sti...
Martial Arts42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze at the Nagoya Asian Games, and the Ten-Touch Wall42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze at the Nagoya Asian Games, and the Ten-Touc...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger on the Leitai: The Number Nobody Published in Vietnam vs China's 56kg FinalThe stretcher came off the leitai, and the commentator stopped talking for tw...
Martial ArtsA Swollen Knee, a Few Seconds of Silence, and 5-0: Inside Vietnam's Team-Kata GoldBefore the team-kata final, three Vietnamese women stood at the edge of the...
Martial ArtsNot the Blade, the Budget: Singapore's First Fencing Bronze and Bangladesh's Four Missing Karate GoldsAt two in the morning on a Rajshahi rooftop, the phone screen was carrying th...
Martial ArtsThree Matches, Three 5-0 Sweeps: Vietnam's Kata Gold and the Ledger Line Nobody AuditedIran's three kata athletes stepped off the mat in the final, and the panel's...
Martial ArtsThe Last Two Minutes of Round Five: The Ledger Behind Leaving on a Stretcher While Ahead on the CardsIt was half past three on the clock in Mymensingh. I was holding the stream o...
Martial ArtsFive Judges, One Verdict: The Gap Inside Vietnam's Team Kata GoldOn the scoreboard, five flags leaned the same way. In the women's team kata a...
Martial ArtsOne Touch, One Bronze, One Empty Pathway: The Question Singapore's Fencing Breakthrough Places Before BangladeshOn the Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. In June 20...
Martial ArtsCan Blockchain Become the New Referee of Sports Data Transparency?In 2026, at 43, I left an 11-year print desk to launch a tactics blog with...
Martial Arts5-0, 5-0, Then Iran: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's First Asian Games Gold22 September 2026, late afternoon turning to evening. Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. Th...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger of the Mat: Five Judges' Ballots, Vietnam's Kata, and One Date Still Waiting for VerificationThe Ledger of the Mat: Five Judges' Ballots, Vietnam's Kata, and One Date Sti...
Martial Arts42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze at the Nagoya Asian Games, and the Ten-Touch Wall42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze at the Nagoya Asian Games, and the Ten-Touc...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger on the Leitai: The Number Nobody Published in Vietnam vs China's 56kg FinalThe stretcher came off the leitai, and the commentator stopped talking for tw...
Martial ArtsA Swollen Knee, a Few Seconds of Silence, and 5-0: Inside Vietnam's Team-Kata GoldBefore the team-kata final, three Vietnamese women stood at the edge of the...
Martial ArtsNot the Blade, the Budget: Singapore's First Fencing Bronze and Bangladesh's Four Missing Karate GoldsAt two in the morning on a Rajshahi rooftop, the phone screen was carrying th...