Martial Arts
19.413 to 19.546: A 0.133-Point Gap on the Wushu Taolu Podium, and the Farewell Arithmetic Hiding Inside It
Seven-Thousandths of a Point: Duong Thuy Vi and Four Asiads on the Aichi-Nagoya Floor
Four Bronzes in a Day: The Semifinal Wall and the Bracket Arithmetic Behind Vietnam's Sanda
The Leitai Ledger: China's Sanda Monopoly and Vietnam's Paper Trail at 56kg
Four Bronzes in a Day, Three Gifted by the Bracket: How Vietnam's Wushu Result Should Be Read
19.413 to 19.546: A 0.133-Point Gap on the Wushu Taolu Podium, and the Farewell Arithmetic Hiding Inside ItHook The chairs in the stands had already been stacked. The carpet still...
Seven-Thousandths of a Point: Duong Thuy Vi and Four Asiads on the Aichi-Nagoya FloorThree seconds. Three seconds of silence before the judges' hands came down....
Four Bronzes in a Day: The Semifinal Wall and the Bracket Arithmetic Behind Vietnam's SandaSeptember 23. I was scrolling a results sheet at my Osaka desk, close to elev...
Four Bronzes in a Day, Three Gifted by the Bracket: How Vietnam's Wushu Result Should Be ReadThe evening of September 23. Into the Vietnamese wushu delegation's ledger we...
A Gap of 0.007: Duong Thuy Vi's Fourth Asiad and the Resolution Crisis in Taolu JudgingThe scoreboard was still holding two numbers — 9.703 and 9.710. I ran the cli...
The Fight With No File: Combat Sports' Data Vacuum and Blockchain's OverpromiseMay 2026, a hotel ballroom in Dhaka. Forty chairs were laid out for the...
Asiad 20: Vietnam's Two Bronzes Came From the Shallow End — A Ledger of Teqball's Debut and Karate Kata's Tier TestWhat stopped me this week wasn't a medal. It was a scoreline. Bui Ngoc Nhi's...
The Leitai Ledger: China's Sanda Monopoly and Vietnam's Paper Trail at 56kgThe stretcher stopped at the edge of the leitai, and the loudest sound in the...
The Kata Gold, the ‘5-0’ Line and a Missing Score Sheet: Auditing Vietnam's ASIAD NightI was sitting under the tin shed beside the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka. December...
Vietnam's Kata Gold: Five Judges, Fifteen Votes, Zero Dissent — And One Empty BoxFifteen votes. Fifteen times the first name out of the panel was Vietnam....