Martial Arts
77 kg, a Sauna and an Unconscious Fighter: The Incident I Could Not See Even While Standing on Asian Games Soil
The Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: How Singapore's Épée Bronze Left a Bigger Question Than the Ranking
Short Hair, Long Count: What Vietnam's Team Kata Told Us Between Two Asian Games Golds
A 5-0 Is Not a Shutout: Karate's Panel Votes, Repechage and the Gap in Medal Economy
Short Hair, Long Count: What Vietnam's Team Kata Told Us Between Two Asian Games GoldsOn the night of September 22, past two in the morning in Osaka, I watched thr...
77 kg, a Sauna and an Unconscious Fighter: The Incident I Could Not See Even While Standing on Asian Games SoilOne I did not see it live. That has to come first, because it is how I work: ...
A 5-0 Is Not a Shutout: Karate's Panel Votes, Repechage and the Gap in Medal EconomyIt is half past midnight on a Rajshahi rooftop. On the laptop screen: a hall ...
Five Flags on a Nagoya Mat: Vietnam's First Gold, and the Empty Cell in My FileAichi-Nagoya, 22 September 2026, half past four in the afternoon. I propped m...
The 42-41 Overtime: Singapore's First Asian Games Épée Team Medal — and the Distance That RemainsThe scoreboard read 41-41. The clock was nearly done. On the Uzbekistan bench...
The Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: How Singapore's Épée Bronze Left a Bigger Question Than the RankingAichi Sky Expo, Hall 3, the last hour. The piste already half-rolled, a...