Martial Arts
Martial ArtsThe Semifinal Is the Ceiling: Vietnam's Four Medals Counted Against an Unfinished Ledger2026-09-24SEPTEMBER 23, HALF PAST NINE AT NIGHT. FIVE NEW NAMES ENTERED MY NOTEBOOK. Fo...
Martial ArtsLedger on the Leitai: China's 56kg Monopoly and Vietnam's One Empty Cell2026-09-24The first page of my Deal Sheet was written on a plastic chair in the lower...
Martial ArtsThirty Minutes in the Sauna, Under 77 kg: The Ledger Nobody Counted at Asiad 20262026-09-24On an evening last September, in the Athletes' Village at the Aichi-Nagoya...
Martial ArtsThe 77 kg That Vanished in Sauna Steam: Asiad 2026 and the Arithmetic Error of Weight Cutting2026-09-24The 77 kg That Vanished in Sauna Steam: Asiad 2026 and the Arithmetic Error o...
Martial ArtsThe Leitai Ledger: Six Chinese Golds at 56kg, One Vietnamese Throw2026-09-24The Leitai Ledger: Six Chinese Golds at 56kg, One Vietnamese Throw 1. The bea...
The Leitai Ledger: Six Chinese Golds at 56kg, One Vietnamese ThrowThe Leitai Ledger: Six Chinese Golds at 56kg, One Vietnamese Throw 1. The bea...
The Semifinal Is the Ceiling: Vietnam's Four Medals Counted Against an Unfinished LedgerSEPTEMBER 23, HALF PAST NINE AT NIGHT. FIVE NEW NAMES ENTERED MY NOTEBOOK. Fo...
9.703 and 9.710: A 33-Year-Old's Last Entry in the Sword-and-Spear LedgerWhen the scoreboard lifted 9.703 at the end of the morning sword routine,...
The 9.703 Tie, the 9.710 Verdict: The Story Vietnam's Sword Did Not Tell at the AsiadA Tie Between Two Routines: 9.703 The score sheet held a tie between the two...
The Semifinal Wall and Four Bronzes in a Day: A Frame-by-Frame Reading of Vietnam's Wushu ResultsHook You have to stop scrolling at one column in the September medal table....
The 0.133-Point Testimony: Dương Thúy Vi's Bronze, the 'Evergreen' Label and Bangladesh's Empty PipelineI did not see it live. This time the clock was on my side — the 20th Asian...
The Semifinal Ceiling: How Vietnam's Rain of Medals Is Really a Format CalculationI did not watch Vietnam's medal night live. On September 23 I was in a Nagoya...
Vietnamese Karateka's Short Hair: Continuity of Success from One Generation to the NextWhen I first saw that image — three young women, same hair length, same stanc...
Ledger on the Leitai: China's 56kg Monopoly and Vietnam's One Empty CellThe first page of my Deal Sheet was written on a plastic chair in the lower...
Thirty Minutes in the Sauna, Under 77 kg: The Ledger Nobody Counted at Asiad 2026On an evening last September, in the Athletes' Village at the Aichi-Nagoya...
The 77 kg That Vanished in Sauna Steam: Asiad 2026 and the Arithmetic Error of Weight CuttingThe 77 kg That Vanished in Sauna Steam: Asiad 2026 and the Arithmetic Error o...
The Semifinal Is the Ceiling: Vietnam's Four Medals Counted Against an Unfinished LedgerSEPTEMBER 23, HALF PAST NINE AT NIGHT. FIVE NEW NAMES ENTERED MY NOTEBOOK. Fo...
9.703 and 9.710: A 33-Year-Old's Last Entry in the Sword-and-Spear LedgerWhen the scoreboard lifted 9.703 at the end of the morning sword routine,...
The 9.703 Tie, the 9.710 Verdict: The Story Vietnam's Sword Did Not Tell at the AsiadA Tie Between Two Routines: 9.703 The score sheet held a tie between the two...
The Semifinal Wall and Four Bronzes in a Day: A Frame-by-Frame Reading of Vietnam's Wushu ResultsHook You have to stop scrolling at one column in the September medal table....
The 0.133-Point Testimony: Dương Thúy Vi's Bronze, the 'Evergreen' Label and Bangladesh's Empty PipelineI did not see it live. This time the clock was on my side — the 20th Asian...
The Semifinal Ceiling: How Vietnam's Rain of Medals Is Really a Format CalculationI did not watch Vietnam's medal night live. On September 23 I was in a Nagoya...
Vietnamese Karateka's Short Hair: Continuity of Success from One Generation to the NextWhen I first saw that image — three young women, same hair length, same stanc...
Ledger on the Leitai: China's 56kg Monopoly and Vietnam's One Empty CellThe first page of my Deal Sheet was written on a plastic chair in the lower...
Thirty Minutes in the Sauna, Under 77 kg: The Ledger Nobody Counted at Asiad 2026On an evening last September, in the Athletes' Village at the Aichi-Nagoya...
The 77 kg That Vanished in Sauna Steam: Asiad 2026 and the Arithmetic Error of Weight CuttingThe 77 kg That Vanished in Sauna Steam: Asiad 2026 and the Arithmetic Error o...