Swimming
The 53.92 Question: Which Pool Was Claire Curzan's Record Swum In?
Cal's Fourth Top-20 Commitment: David Sammons's Nine-Event File and the Thirty-Five Seconds of Short Course
A New Format Doesn't Build a Pool: The Westmont League and the Mirpur Ledger
Seven Golds, a 3:41.28, and an Unratified 2:04.83
The Zero-Data Trap: Data Integrity Crisis in Swimming News AnalysisA confession first. The biggest illusion in sports journalism is the belief...
Not Waiting for a Medal, But in River Water: Bangladesh's Real Water StoryI went looking for a race and found the river first. It was 2026 — dawn on th...
The 53.92 Question: Which Pool Was Claire Curzan's Record Swum In?53.92 arrived on my phone inside a sentence that did not mention the length o...
53.92: Claire Curzan and the New Wall in the Women's 100 BackstrokeAmerican swimmer Claire Curzan stopped the clock at 53.92 seconds in the...
The Empty Field Is Our Biggest Record: Bangladeshi Swimming's Real Deficit Is a Ledger1. The Page Nobody Filled In I remember the afternoon at the outdoor pool in...
NAIA's Fifth-Season Vote: Who Gets Stopped at the 96-Credit WallOn September 28 the Path Forward Task Force announced five seasons in ten...
Caribbean Tide at Tennessee: Jianna Amores and the Invisible Ledger of College SwimmingI was standing on the deck in Santo Domingo last summer, on an evening of the...
Cal's Fourth Top-20 Commitment: David Sammons's Nine-Event File and the Thirty-Five Seconds of Short CourseFour. That is where the SwimSwam recruiting headline stops: Cal's fourth...
Four Golds, Zero Times: Vietnam's Little Mermaid Returned, But How Fast?In early October, a meet was held at the Phu Tho swimming pool in Ho Chi Minh...
Medals Without a Clock: The Question Anh Vien's Comeback Left UnansweredThe results sheet from the Phu Tho pool lay open in front of me, and that was...
A New Name Enters the Mirpur Ledger: The Ledger Settles, But Does the Water Stop?At the outdoor 50m complex in Mirpur, on an afternoon in 2026, I filed my fir...
Ben Armbruster's 22.00: Auditing a Prelim Record on Australian SoilAt the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Center, when the video board flashed only...
The Shoulder Nobody Wrote Down, the Titles Everyone Counted: Frank Busch's 79 NCAA Championships and the Diagnosis of Silence in SwimmingOn 17 December 2026, at the outdoor 50-metre pool in Mirpur, I sat in the...
The 1.59 Seconds in Christchurch: The Splits Nobody Read Behind Three Age-Group RecordsThe 25m pool in Christchurch, first finals session of the 2026 New Zealand...
Not Waiting for a Medal, But in River Water: Bangladesh's Real Water StoryI went looking for a race and found the river first. It was 2026 — dawn on th...
The 53.92 Question: Which Pool Was Claire Curzan's Record Swum In?53.92 arrived on my phone inside a sentence that did not mention the length o...
53.92: Claire Curzan and the New Wall in the Women's 100 BackstrokeAmerican swimmer Claire Curzan stopped the clock at 53.92 seconds in the...
The Empty Field Is Our Biggest Record: Bangladeshi Swimming's Real Deficit Is a Ledger1. The Page Nobody Filled In I remember the afternoon at the outdoor pool in...
NAIA's Fifth-Season Vote: Who Gets Stopped at the 96-Credit WallOn September 28 the Path Forward Task Force announced five seasons in ten...
Caribbean Tide at Tennessee: Jianna Amores and the Invisible Ledger of College SwimmingI was standing on the deck in Santo Domingo last summer, on an evening of the...
Cal's Fourth Top-20 Commitment: David Sammons's Nine-Event File and the Thirty-Five Seconds of Short CourseFour. That is where the SwimSwam recruiting headline stops: Cal's fourth...
Four Golds, Zero Times: Vietnam's Little Mermaid Returned, But How Fast?In early October, a meet was held at the Phu Tho swimming pool in Ho Chi Minh...
Medals Without a Clock: The Question Anh Vien's Comeback Left UnansweredThe results sheet from the Phu Tho pool lay open in front of me, and that was...
A New Name Enters the Mirpur Ledger: The Ledger Settles, But Does the Water Stop?At the outdoor 50m complex in Mirpur, on an afternoon in 2026, I filed my fir...
Ben Armbruster's 22.00: Auditing a Prelim Record on Australian SoilAt the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Center, when the video board flashed only...
The Shoulder Nobody Wrote Down, the Titles Everyone Counted: Frank Busch's 79 NCAA Championships and the Diagnosis of Silence in SwimmingOn 17 December 2026, at the outdoor 50-metre pool in Mirpur, I sat in the...
The 1.59 Seconds in Christchurch: The Splits Nobody Read Behind Three Age-Group RecordsThe 25m pool in Christchurch, first finals session of the 2026 New Zealand...