Martial Arts
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Scorelines That Place Singapore's Fencing Bronze Correctly
Five Kilos, Two Rounds and a Corner Call She Never Heard: Why Lo Thi Phung Stopped at the Asiad Quarterfinal
From Four Teams to Eight: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's Team Kata Gold
Two Bronzes from Ninth Place: What Teqball and Kata Gave Vietnam, and What They Did Not
Five Kilos, Two Rounds and a Corner Call She Never Heard: Why Lo Thi Phung Stopped at the Asiad QuarterfinalThe Whisper On the afternoon of 20 September, at my desk in Khulna, a two-lin...
From Four Teams to Eight: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's Team Kata GoldI write the entry list before I write the result. A gold medal's weight is se...
Two Bronzes from Ninth Place: What Teqball and Kata Gave Vietnam, and What They Did NotA Rooftop, Ninety Seconds, and the Number Nine On the Rajshahi rooftop, ninet...
Twelve Seconds, Four Fights, One Accounting: What UFC 331 Actually Taught UsIt was around half past three in the morning, and the ring announcer's voice...
The Three of Kata: Vietnam's First ASIAD Gold and the Unsettled Morning of the Medal TableOn that September afternoon, when three bodies stopped on the tatami at the...
The Ten Frames for Reading a Fight — The Story the Scoreboard Never TellsIn early 2026, a weigh-in at a Dhaka hotel ballroom had only forty chairs. Th...
The N/A Warning: Why Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Archive Writes 'Insufficient Information' in All Eight ColumnsEight pillars. Forty-three cells. In nearly every one of them, the same entry...
The Scoreline Karate Never Writes: Vietnam's Asian Games Gold, an Unprinted Score Sheet, and the Arithmetic of 'Top Three'Hook: The Number That Cannot Sit on the Mat 2:20 in the afternoon, the 22nd o...
Empty Chairs and an Incomplete Ledger: What Blockchain Records Would Have to Fix in Bangladesh's Combat SportsNational Karate Championship, 2026. The press row at the NSC Gymnasium in...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Scorelines That Place Singapore's Fencing Bronze CorrectlyHook — The Arithmetic on a Plastic Tray By the end of the evening session, tw...
42–41: The One Touch That Forces Bangladesh's Combat Sports to Settle Its BooksLast night on a Rajshahi rooftop, I was counting a single second. On the lapt...
The Sword's 42–41: The Ledger Behind Singapore's Épée BronzeThe last touch landed 42–41. At the Aichi Sky Expo in Japan, Singapore's...
The Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: 42–41, Singapore's Épée Bronze, and the Gap Inside the BeatHall Three at Aichi Sky Expo, seven in the evening. Chairs are stacked four...