Martial Arts
Twelve Seconds and Five Rounds: What UFC 331 Never Puts on the ScorecardLast Sunday before dawn, my desk in Nagoya held three things: a cup of tea go...
Kata and Teqball: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's Two Bronzes at Asiad 20Hook In a Kuala Lumpur studio at 3:20 a.m. local time, the wire feed from Tok...
42–41: Épée Team Bronze and Singapore's Three-Games WallHook: The Pavilion's Last Half Hour The chairs were already being stacked...
42–41: One Touch, One Archived History, and the True Altitude of Singapore's Épée TeamThe last hour on a fencing piste is always the honest hour. At the Aichi Sky...
42–41 and 35–45: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and Combat Sports' Wrong LedgerThe scoreboard read 42–41 before the last touch was even registered — a team...
The Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: How 42–41 Changed the Tempo of a National Fencing ProgrammeThe Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo The hall had emptied, but the camera was stil...
42–41: The Single Touch That Pulled Singapore Fencing Off a Three-Games WallThe alarm went at four in the morning in Dhaka. On the laptop: the free mewat...
42–41: How One Overtime Touch Ended a Three-Games DroughtThat day the scoreboard carried two nations' names, but the weight of the mat...
The Patience of Épée: Singapore's First Women's Team Bronze in Aichi-Nagoya and the Ten-Touch DistanceIn the final hour at the fencing hall of Aichi Sky Expo, the piste is no long...
