Martial Arts
Behind the Bronze, 42–41: Singapore's Fencing Medal and South Asia's Empty Pipeline
42–41: The Score Sheet Nobody Published, and the New Ledger of the Blade
0.133: A Thirty-Three-Year-Old Blade, Five Asiads — and Our Four Karate Golds
Three Minutes Between Sword and Spear: Thuy Vi's Fourth Asian Games Medal in Nagoya
The Wall at 45 Touches: Singapore's First Bronze and the Combat Beat's Ledger
0.133: A Thirty-Three-Year-Old Blade, Five Asiads — and Our Four Karate GoldsThree numbers were printed one beneath the other on the pages of Tiền Phong....
Three Minutes Between Sword and Spear: Thuy Vi's Fourth Asian Games Medal in NagoyaVenue Two in Nagoya, half past nine at night. The medal ceremony ended twenty...
The Wall at 45 Touches: Singapore's First Bronze and the Combat Beat's LedgerIt was 2:40 in the morning in a Chattogram office, one table lamp burning, a...
42–41 and a Sum That Won't Close: The Ledger Behind Singapore's Fencing BronzeHook For forty-eight years I have read ledgers instead of scoreboards — and t...
Behind the Bronze, 42–41: Singapore's Fencing Medal and South Asia's Empty PipelineThe last touch of the quarter-final against Uzbekistan settled on the board a...
The 42–41 Night: Singapore's Fencing Bronze, an Empty Payout Sheet, and the Cold Arithmetic of 35–45The red light flicked on at the Aichi Sky Expo strip and the board read 42–41...
42–41 to 35–45: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze, and an Old Gap Seen From a Chattogram DeskHalf past midnight on a Chattogram desk, a laptop, and the strip at Aichi Sky...
The Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Gap in the 45-Touch LedgerThe Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Gap in the...
42–41: The Score Sheet Nobody Published, and the New Ledger of the BladeA number has been sitting in my notebook for weeks: 42–41. A team épée match,...
Three Minutes Between Sword and Spear: Thuy Vi's Fourth Asian Games Medal in NagoyaVenue Two in Nagoya, half past nine at night. The medal ceremony ended twenty...
The Wall at 45 Touches: Singapore's First Bronze and the Combat Beat's LedgerIt was 2:40 in the morning in a Chattogram office, one table lamp burning, a...
42–41 and a Sum That Won't Close: The Ledger Behind Singapore's Fencing BronzeHook For forty-eight years I have read ledgers instead of scoreboards — and t...
Behind the Bronze, 42–41: Singapore's Fencing Medal and South Asia's Empty PipelineThe last touch of the quarter-final against Uzbekistan settled on the board a...
The 42–41 Night: Singapore's Fencing Bronze, an Empty Payout Sheet, and the Cold Arithmetic of 35–45The red light flicked on at the Aichi Sky Expo strip and the board read 42–41...
42–41 to 35–45: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze, and an Old Gap Seen From a Chattogram DeskHalf past midnight on a Chattogram desk, a laptop, and the strip at Aichi Sky...
The Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Gap in the 45-Touch LedgerThe Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Gap in the...
42–41: The Score Sheet Nobody Published, and the New Ledger of the BladeA number has been sitting in my notebook for weeks: 42–41. A team épée match,...