Martial Arts
Virtual Taekwondo, Five Kilograms and a Sister's Shadow: Vietnam's Ledger at Asiad 2026
The UFC 331 Deal Sheet: Van's Kick-Catch, Steveson's Twelve Seconds, and the Ledger Behind the 'Greatest Lightweight Era' Claim
The Extra Round Stopped Lo Thi Phung — And Asiad 20 Kept the Ledger on Vietnam's MMA Pipeline
A Fifth-Round Slam: Barcelos Led on Every Scorecard and Still Left on a Stretcher
Vietnam's Twelve-Year Ledger: Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze and an Unfinished Scoresheet at Aichi-Nagoya
Kata's '5-0', a Karama Rooftop, and Vietnam's First Gold: The Arithmetic the Medal Table Leaves Out
A Fifth-Round Slam: Barcelos Led on Every Scorecard and Still Left on a StretcherRound five. A clinch against the fence, the back pressed into the rail. Then...
Virtual Taekwondo, Five Kilograms and a Sister's Shadow: Vietnam's Ledger at Asiad 2026Three dates are written separately in my red notebook for the taekwondo...
Vietnam's Twelve-Year Ledger: Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze and an Unfinished Scoresheet at Aichi-NagoyaThe morning session at the Aichi-Nagoya gymnasium ended in a tie. In the...
Kata's '5-0', a Karama Rooftop, and Vietnam's First Gold: The Arithmetic the Medal Table Leaves OutOn 22 September at 14:20, four people were hunched over one phone on the roof...
The UFC 331 Deal Sheet: Van's Kick-Catch, Steveson's Twelve Seconds, and the Ledger Behind the 'Greatest Lightweight Era' ClaimTwelve seconds after the horn, Gable Steveson is lying on the canvas. An...
Short Hair, Empty Mind, Empty Scoreboard: The Inheritance of Vietnam's Team KataThree athletes walk onto the kata mat together. Their hair is cut to the same...
5-0: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold, a Swollen Knee, and Bangladesh's Unpublished Medal TableI counted five flags. Then I looked at the left knee. From my room in...
The Extra Round Stopped Lo Thi Phung — And Asiad 20 Kept the Ledger on Vietnam's MMA PipelineThe afternoon of September 20. In the MMA hall at Asiad 20 the print row was ...
Swords, Taxonomy and a 42–41: What a Fencing Bronze from Nagoya Teaches Bangladesh's Combat SportsHook: A Scoreline That Should Not Exist in This Sport I have a rule, and I ha...
42–41: The Single Touch That Broke Singapore Fencing's Three-Games WallHook: A Number That Should Not Exist Team épée matches run to a cumulative...
Singapore's Épée Team on Asian Games Podium: The 42-41 Night That Ended a Three-Games Curse42-41. Overtime. Elle Koh's final movement escaped the eye, but the red light...
42–41 and 35–45: The Fencing Bronze Maths Nobody Wants to PrintAt half past three in the morning I had a scoreboard frozen on my phone....
Singapore's historic women's epee team bronze: from 42-41 overtime to the 35-45 Korea gapSingapore's women's epee team won their first Asian Games team bronze at...
Virtual Taekwondo, Five Kilograms and a Sister's Shadow: Vietnam's Ledger at Asiad 2026Three dates are written separately in my red notebook for the taekwondo...
Vietnam's Twelve-Year Ledger: Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze and an Unfinished Scoresheet at Aichi-NagoyaThe morning session at the Aichi-Nagoya gymnasium ended in a tie. In the...
Kata's '5-0', a Karama Rooftop, and Vietnam's First Gold: The Arithmetic the Medal Table Leaves OutOn 22 September at 14:20, four people were hunched over one phone on the roof...
The UFC 331 Deal Sheet: Van's Kick-Catch, Steveson's Twelve Seconds, and the Ledger Behind the 'Greatest Lightweight Era' ClaimTwelve seconds after the horn, Gable Steveson is lying on the canvas. An...
Short Hair, Empty Mind, Empty Scoreboard: The Inheritance of Vietnam's Team KataThree athletes walk onto the kata mat together. Their hair is cut to the same...
5-0: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold, a Swollen Knee, and Bangladesh's Unpublished Medal TableI counted five flags. Then I looked at the left knee. From my room in...
The Extra Round Stopped Lo Thi Phung — And Asiad 20 Kept the Ledger on Vietnam's MMA PipelineThe afternoon of September 20. In the MMA hall at Asiad 20 the print row was ...
Swords, Taxonomy and a 42–41: What a Fencing Bronze from Nagoya Teaches Bangladesh's Combat SportsHook: A Scoreline That Should Not Exist in This Sport I have a rule, and I ha...
42–41: The Single Touch That Broke Singapore Fencing's Three-Games WallHook: A Number That Should Not Exist Team épée matches run to a cumulative...
Singapore's Épée Team on Asian Games Podium: The 42-41 Night That Ended a Three-Games Curse42-41. Overtime. Elle Koh's final movement escaped the eye, but the red light...
42–41 and 35–45: The Fencing Bronze Maths Nobody Wants to PrintAt half past three in the morning I had a scoreboard frozen on my phone....
Singapore's historic women's epee team bronze: from 42-41 overtime to the 35-45 Korea gapSingapore's women's epee team won their first Asian Games team bronze at...