Martial Arts
The Twin 9.346 and Dakar's Clock Gap: Who Audits Vietnam's First Medal Arithmetic?
Another Fight Outside the Ring: The Lawsuit That Exposed the Silence of Boxing's Labor System
Asiad 2026: Vietnam's Real Bet Isn't the 'World Champion's Sister' in Poomsae — It's Virtual Taekwondo
42–41: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Wall That Stood for Three Games
Forty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens: The Audience That Rewrote Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Arithmetic
Imane Khelif Returns to the Ring After Two Years: The Bigger Test Awaits Beyond Paris
Forty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens: The Audience That Rewrote Bangladesh's Combat-Sports ArithmeticThe first thing you notice inside the hotel ballroom is the chairs. Laid out ...
Imane Khelif Returns to the Ring After Two Years: The Bigger Test Awaits Beyond ParisAn Olympic champion returning to the ring after two years away faces a...
Unconscious at the 77kg Limit: The Real Record at the Asian Games is the Indian Fighter's Weight-Cut ManagementSeptember 20, 2026. At the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan, in a side hall,...
The Semifinal Is Where It Ends — So Who's Calling It a 'Rain of Medals'?On September 23, I read Vietnam's wushu results sheet three times. Four bronz...
The Twin 9.346 and Dakar's Clock Gap: Who Audits Vietnam's First Medal Arithmetic?Just past six in the morning in Vietnam. In Dakar's coverage, the night of 3...
An Empty File Is Also Evidence: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Has Medals but No PaperThere is a folder in the steel almirah at my house in Rajshahi. A name is...
Eight Empty Boxes, Zero Answers: The Audit Report That Mirrored Combat-Sports JournalismOne in the morning. A Facebook Live buffers on a phone in a six-person flat i...
October 3: Sepak Takraw First Set Leads the Diary, but Vietnam's Combat Qualifiers Are the Real TestOn the October 3 Asian Games diary, the loudest line belongs to sepak takraw:...
Another Fight Outside the Ring: The Lawsuit That Exposed the Silence of Boxing's Labor SystemA night in Las Vegas, a robbery targeting a 45-year-old Philippine-linked...
Vietnam Stops at 63.5 kg: Muay Thai's Weight Architecture at the 2026 National Sports GamesI stopped at the sixth line of the men's weight-class list. Forty-five to...
The Combat-Sports Purse Ledger: Can Blockchain Make Federations Tell the Truth?I keep the first Deal Sheet in my head, written on a wooden bench in a combat...
Read the Scorecards, Not the Headline: A Flyweight Rematch and the Ledger of an Unverified ResultAt 3:07 a.m. in a small Dhaka flat, the laptop screen threw up three numbers ...
The Medal Table Nobody Published: Bangladesh's Unwritten Karate Ledger11 p.m. Half the tube lights in the NSC gymnasium corridor are dead and the...
The Empty File: The Record Bangladesh's Martial Arts Never KeepsThe first time I opened the file, I assumed the software had failed. The...
The Silence After Round Five: Barcelos's 'Great' and the Arithmetic of a StretcherOn Saturday night in a Las Vegas Octagon, when the referee jumped in during t...
Asiad 2026: Vietnam's Real Bet Isn't the 'World Champion's Sister' in Poomsae — It's Virtual TaekwondoOctober 3, 2026. At the Aichi-Nagoya Asiad taekwondo mat, a name will answer...
Five to Nothing: What the Scoreboard Hides in Vietnam's Team Kata GoldThree athletes stood at the edge of the mat. Their hands were laced together,...
Thirty Minutes in the Sauna: The Weight Cut That Cost Consciousness at Asiad 2026 — and the Scoreboard Nobody ReadIn my red notebook there is a page with this date: September 17, 2026, NSC...
72 Percent and 259 to 152: The Arithmetic of a Flyweight Rematch, and a Report With No Return AddressAt the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, five rounds after the main event, the...
19.413: Vietnam's Taolu Veteran Takes a Fourth Straight Asian Games Medal — and the Ledger Nobody PublishedTwo numbers sit side by side on the Aichi-Nagoya scoreboard: 9.703 and 9.710....
Four Medals, One Ceiling: The Bracket Wrote Vietnam's Wushu HaulI did not watch it live. It was 2 a.m. in a Nagoya apartment, a Vietnamese ne...
The Fast, the Sauna and an Empty Bracket Line: The Unpublished Ledger of Asiad 2026's 77kg Incident1. Hook: The Line That Stayed Empty On a September 2026 morning I had two...
42–41: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Wall That Stood for Three GamesThe board read 42–41. In a team épée relay the target is forty-five touches —...
From 42–41 to 35–45: Singapore's Épée Bronze Is History at One End and a Ten-Touch Wall at the Other42–41. The board read 42, the opponent 41, and the final touch arrived in...