Martial Arts
Vietnam's Ceiling at the Semifinal: The Bracket Arithmetic Hidden Inside Four Wushu Bronzes
Zero Point One Three Three: Dương Thúy Vi and the Last Tempo of Wushu Taolu
42–41: Relay Arithmetic, Electronic Lights and Singapore's First Asian Games Team Bronze
Five-Nil and a Swollen Knee: The Four Doors Beneath Vietnam's Kata Gold
Vietnam's Ceiling at the Semifinal: The Bracket Arithmetic Hidden Inside Four Wushu BronzesWhen I walked off the print desk to work alone with fourteen freeze-frames, I...
Five-Nil and a Swollen Knee: The Four Doors Beneath Vietnam's Kata GoldFive referees, five scores, one zero. When the women's team kata final of Asi...
Two 5-0s and One Missing Number: How Vietnam's First Asian Games Gold Was a Relay RaceI have two numbers written in my spiral notebook. 5-0, and 5-0. There should...
Teqball's First Medal, Karate's Slice of Bronze: Vietnam's Two Different Ledgers at the Asian GamesThe 20th Asian Games medal table I did not watch from the press box; I watche...
Vietnam's Two Bronzes, One Empty Corridor: Reading Kata and Teqball at Asiad 20Vietnam's first medal at Asiad 20 did not come from swimming, shooting or...
Zero Point One Three Three: Dương Thúy Vi and the Last Tempo of Wushu TaoluThe wait before she stepped onto the mat was long. Dương Thúy Vi later admitt...
42–41: The Touch That Gave Singapore Its First Team Épée Bronze, and What the Scoreboard HidesInside Aichi Sky Expo, the sound from the piste is not the sound of a glove...
Singapore Women's Épée Team Bronze: The Relay That Cleared a Three-Games Quarter-Final HurdleI counted fourteen chairs in the press row; one silence was mine. At the Aich...
42–41: Singapore's First Team Épée Medal and Fencing's Unfinished Deal SheetHook: A Match That Stopped at Forty-Two At the Aichi Sky Expo fencing piste,...
42–41: Relay Arithmetic, Electronic Lights and Singapore's First Asian Games Team BronzeIt takes forty minutes by rail from Aichi Sky Expo to my flat. I still spent...
History in overtime: Singapore's women's épée team wins first Asian Games bronzeSINGAPORE — At the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, Singapore's women's épée team wo...
42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze, an Electronic Ledger, and Asia's Real LadderThe number on the board was still glowing — 41–41, or was it 42–41. The...
From 42–41 to 35–45: Singapore's First Épée Team Medal and What It Actually Costs42–41. In international fencing a touch is registered by electronic sensor, n...