Martial Arts
Imane Khelif Returns to the Ring After Two Years: A Comeback Overshadowed by an Unresolved Eligibility Dispute
Big Day for Vietnam in Asian Games Wushu: Four Bronzes in a Day, Dinh Van Tam Reaches Sanda Final
The Arithmetic Outside the Ring: The Questions in Combat Sports That Matter More Than Results
Vietnam's Repeat Kata Gold: The Margin Hidden Inside Three 5-0 Verdicts
The Metronome of the Empty Page: Where Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Record Stops
No Fight Analysis From Empty Input: The Gate That Is Sports Journalism's Real OpponentLast week I received a report titled as a deep analysis. Eight dimensions, ea...
Imane Khelif Returns to the Ring After Two Years: A Comeback Overshadowed by an Unresolved Eligibility DisputeTwo years ago, almost every appearance by Imane Khelif in the Paris Olympic...
Vietnam's First Medal at Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics: A Taijiquan Silver and an Incomplete LedgerAt six in the morning in my Kuala Lumpur studio, I still hadn't finished the...
9.346 and 9.346: The Four Numbers Behind Vietnam's Dakar Silver That Still Belong to No OneTwo figures sit side by side on the scoresheet: 9.346 and 9.346. Le Hoang...
The 9.346 Repeat: Behind Vietnam's First Dakar Youth Olympic MedalFor three weeks I have been looking for a duplicate of two lines on one score...
Big Day for Vietnam in Asian Games Wushu: Four Bronzes in a Day, Dinh Van Tam Reaches Sanda FinalIt was a productive day for Vietnam in the Asian Games wushu competition. On...
The Report With No Facts: When the Sports-Analysis Pipeline Fails, Rumour Becomes the Only 'Data'Sometimes the most uncomfortable report in sports journalism is the one with...
Starting from Zero: The Discipline of Evidence in Combat-Sports AnalysisSports journalism revolves around events. A match, a contract, a weigh-in, a...
The Arithmetic Outside the Ring: The Questions in Combat Sports That Matter More Than ResultsDiscussion of combat sports almost always begins with results — who won, who...
Eight Sections, Every Cell Reading 'Insufficient Information': The Politics of Record-Keeping in Bangladesh's Combat SportsMarch 2026, the last hour of the final day of the national karate championshi...
After 42–41: Singapore's First Women's Épée Team Bronze and an Unfinished LedgerThe board at the Aichi Sky Expo read 42–41 when the four Singapore fencers...
The Record Nobody Can Find Is the Biggest Story in Bangladesh's Combat SportsI did not watch the fight live. The card that went down in a Dhaka hotel...