Martial Arts
October 1 Poomsae, October 3 Virtual: Vietnam's Changed Arithmetic at the Asiad
UFC 331: The Real Headline Isn't Ruffy's 13 KOs — It's Tsarukyan's Back
Five Judges, Five Votes, One Swollen Knee and 1.2 Billion Dong: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's First Gold
From 42–41 to 35–45: The Korean Arithmetic Hidden Inside Singapore's First Fencing Bronze
October 1 Poomsae, October 3 Virtual: Vietnam's Changed Arithmetic at the AsiadI sat at my Osaka desk with a schedule open in front of me — October 1,...
UFC 331: The Real Headline Isn't Ruffy's 13 KOs — It's Tsarukyan's BackLast year Arman Tsarukyan never made it to the weigh-in stage. One day before...
UFC 331: The 'Greatest Era' of Lightweights — Reality or Marketing?UFC 331 delivered one of the year's most technical fights (Joshua Van...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan's Back, Ruffy's Knockout Rate, and the Number the Odds Cannot PriceMarch 2026, the NSC Gymnasium in Dhaka. Across four days of the national kara...
Three Bodies, One Breath: Vietnam's Karate Gold in Nagoya and the Honest Accounting of a PipelineSeptember 22, 2026. The kata mat in Nagoya, the afternoon session, the women'...
Asiad 20: Lo Thi Phung's Quarter-Final Loss and the 5kg Weight Jump Nobody Wrote DownI keep one frame. Afternoon of 20 September, Asiad 20, women's MMA 54kg...
That ‘5-0’ Is Not a Score Sheet: Vietnam's Kata Gold and the Misreading of a Day-One Medal TableNobody looks at anybody on a kata mat. Three women stand shoulder to shoulder...
Five Judges, Five Votes, One Swollen Knee and 1.2 Billion Dong: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's First GoldHook I could not take my eyes off the left knee. Swollen. Scraped. Struck twi...
From 42–41 to 35–45: The Korean Arithmetic Hidden Inside Singapore's First Fencing BronzeIt was one in the morning in a six-person flat in Cheras, and the only light ...
Singapore's First Team Epee Bronze: Reading the 42–41 Touch and the 35–45 MarginIt was 2:40 in the morning in Nagoya. On the laptop screen, the piste at the...
Fencing Bronze: 42–41 Is the Milestone, 35–45 Is the Ceiling42–41. Overtime. The last touch came off Elle Koh's blade. The inside of Aich...
42–41: The Touch That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History — and the Ten Touches Still OwedI had the phone propped against a water bottle again — the same way I had don...
42–41 Is the Celebration. 35–45 Is the Truth.42–41. That is the number doing all the celebrating in Singapore's fencing...
42-41: Singapore's Epee Bronze at Aichi Sky Expo and the Uncounted Pauses of FencingOn the fencing strips of Aichi Sky Expo, the loudest sound in the final hour ...
42–41: One Touch Wrote History, Ten Touches Drew the Ceiling42–41: One Touch Wrote History, Ten Touches Drew the Ceiling Hook: The Number...
UFC 331: The Real Headline Isn't Ruffy's 13 KOs — It's Tsarukyan's BackLast year Arman Tsarukyan never made it to the weigh-in stage. One day before...
UFC 331: The 'Greatest Era' of Lightweights — Reality or Marketing?UFC 331 delivered one of the year's most technical fights (Joshua Van...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan's Back, Ruffy's Knockout Rate, and the Number the Odds Cannot PriceMarch 2026, the NSC Gymnasium in Dhaka. Across four days of the national kara...
Three Bodies, One Breath: Vietnam's Karate Gold in Nagoya and the Honest Accounting of a PipelineSeptember 22, 2026. The kata mat in Nagoya, the afternoon session, the women'...
Asiad 20: Lo Thi Phung's Quarter-Final Loss and the 5kg Weight Jump Nobody Wrote DownI keep one frame. Afternoon of 20 September, Asiad 20, women's MMA 54kg...
That ‘5-0’ Is Not a Score Sheet: Vietnam's Kata Gold and the Misreading of a Day-One Medal TableNobody looks at anybody on a kata mat. Three women stand shoulder to shoulder...
Five Judges, Five Votes, One Swollen Knee and 1.2 Billion Dong: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's First GoldHook I could not take my eyes off the left knee. Swollen. Scraped. Struck twi...
From 42–41 to 35–45: The Korean Arithmetic Hidden Inside Singapore's First Fencing BronzeIt was one in the morning in a six-person flat in Cheras, and the only light ...
Singapore's First Team Epee Bronze: Reading the 42–41 Touch and the 35–45 MarginIt was 2:40 in the morning in Nagoya. On the laptop screen, the piste at the...
Fencing Bronze: 42–41 Is the Milestone, 35–45 Is the Ceiling42–41. Overtime. The last touch came off Elle Koh's blade. The inside of Aich...
42–41: The Touch That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History — and the Ten Touches Still OwedI had the phone propped against a water bottle again — the same way I had don...
42–41 Is the Celebration. 35–45 Is the Truth.42–41. That is the number doing all the celebrating in Singapore's fencing...
42-41: Singapore's Epee Bronze at Aichi Sky Expo and the Uncounted Pauses of FencingOn the fencing strips of Aichi Sky Expo, the loudest sound in the final hour ...
42–41: One Touch Wrote History, Ten Touches Drew the Ceiling42–41: One Touch Wrote History, Ten Touches Drew the Ceiling Hook: The Number...