Martial Arts
Martial ArtsThe Abandoned Touchline: What I Saw at Hang Day When Every Winger Wants to Come Inside2026-09-26The Abandoned Touchline: What I Saw at Hang Day When Every Winger Wants to Co...
Martial ArtsSingapore's Women's Epee Team and a First-Ever Medal: Reading the Result from the Referee's Scoresheet2026-09-26The electronic scoreboard jumped from 41-41 to 42-41, and the match stopped. ...
Martial ArtsWomen's Team Epee: Singapore and the First Medal After Three Straight Quarter-Final Exits2026-09-26Before the electronic buzzer of the scoring system sounded, there was a momen...
Martial ArtsThe Cropped Hair and the Flame That Never Goes Out: Inside Vietnam's Women's Kata Machine After the Asiad 20 Gold2026-09-23On the afternoon of September 22, on the tatami, three cropped heads bowed do...
Martial ArtsIndian MMA Fighter Collapses in Sauna at Asian Games 2026: The Scale Only Polices the Finish Line2026-09-22A sauna room in Aichi-Nagoya, the evening of September 19, 2026. Thirty...
Martial ArtsLo Thi Phung's Asian Games Quarterfinal Loss to Lee Bomi: Round-Two Pacing and the 54 kg Equation2026-09-21Two regulation rounds closed with nothing separating the fighters. The extra...
Three Days, Two Arenas: Chau Ngoc Tuyet Sang and Vietnam Taekwondo's Multi-Discipline Gamble at Asiad 2026Chau Ngoc Tuyet Sang competes in two disciplines at Asiad 2026, and the media...
Vietnam Women's Team Kata at Asiad 20: Reading the Gold Medal Through Data, Not ApplauseTwenty seconds before the judges turned their boards, the Toyohashi hall was...
The Weight-Cut Night in Nagoya: When the Fighter's Own Body Became the Final OpponentThere is a moment inside a sauna that I never want to replay in my head, even...
The Abandoned Touchline: What I Saw at Hang Day When Every Winger Wants to Come InsideThe Abandoned Touchline: What I Saw at Hang Day When Every Winger Wants to Co...
Singapore's Women's Epee Team and a First-Ever Medal: Reading the Result from the Referee's ScoresheetThe electronic scoreboard jumped from 41-41 to 42-41, and the match stopped. ...
Women's Team Epee: Singapore and the First Medal After Three Straight Quarter-Final ExitsBefore the electronic buzzer of the scoring system sounded, there was a momen...
Five Flags and a Sigh: The Pulse of Vietnamese Kata in ToyohashiI sat in the seventh row of Toyohashi Gymnasium, a worn-edged lined notebook ...
Vietnam karate defends Asiad 20 gold: Three 5-0 sweeps and the gaps behind the medalWhen the fifth and final flag was raised for Vietnam, I looked at the clock:...
The 5-0 Sweep and the Women's Team Kata Gold: What Asiad 20 Reveals About How We Read Martial ArtsFive judges. Five flags. Not one for the opponent — not in the quarterfinal,...
Duong Thuy Vi and her fourth Asiad bronze: The fragile line between endurance and declineOn the scoreboard of the wushu hall in Aichi-Nagoya, the figure 9.703 appeare...
The Cropped Hair and the Flame That Never Goes Out: Inside Vietnam's Women's Kata Machine After the Asiad 20 GoldOn the afternoon of September 22, on the tatami, three cropped heads bowed do...
Indian MMA Fighter Collapses in Sauna at Asian Games 2026: The Scale Only Polices the Finish LineA sauna room in Aichi-Nagoya, the evening of September 19, 2026. Thirty...
Lo Thi Phung's Asian Games Quarterfinal Loss to Lee Bomi: Round-Two Pacing and the 54 kg EquationTwo regulation rounds closed with nothing separating the fighters. The extra...
Asiad 20 Diary, September 20: Vietnam Takes 2 Bronze Medals, Thailand Claims 3 Golds – Reading Every Medal with an Evidence-Based EyeSeptember 20, Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. The first competition day of Asiad 20 ende...
Vietnam Women's Team Kata at Asiad 20: Reading the Gold Medal Through Data, Not ApplauseTwenty seconds before the judges turned their boards, the Toyohashi hall was...
The Weight-Cut Night in Nagoya: When the Fighter's Own Body Became the Final OpponentThere is a moment inside a sauna that I never want to replay in my head, even...
The Abandoned Touchline: What I Saw at Hang Day When Every Winger Wants to Come InsideThe Abandoned Touchline: What I Saw at Hang Day When Every Winger Wants to Co...
Singapore's Women's Epee Team and a First-Ever Medal: Reading the Result from the Referee's ScoresheetThe electronic scoreboard jumped from 41-41 to 42-41, and the match stopped. ...
Women's Team Epee: Singapore and the First Medal After Three Straight Quarter-Final ExitsBefore the electronic buzzer of the scoring system sounded, there was a momen...
Five Flags and a Sigh: The Pulse of Vietnamese Kata in ToyohashiI sat in the seventh row of Toyohashi Gymnasium, a worn-edged lined notebook ...
Vietnam karate defends Asiad 20 gold: Three 5-0 sweeps and the gaps behind the medalWhen the fifth and final flag was raised for Vietnam, I looked at the clock:...
The 5-0 Sweep and the Women's Team Kata Gold: What Asiad 20 Reveals About How We Read Martial ArtsFive judges. Five flags. Not one for the opponent — not in the quarterfinal,...
Duong Thuy Vi and her fourth Asiad bronze: The fragile line between endurance and declineOn the scoreboard of the wushu hall in Aichi-Nagoya, the figure 9.703 appeare...
The Cropped Hair and the Flame That Never Goes Out: Inside Vietnam's Women's Kata Machine After the Asiad 20 GoldOn the afternoon of September 22, on the tatami, three cropped heads bowed do...
Indian MMA Fighter Collapses in Sauna at Asian Games 2026: The Scale Only Polices the Finish LineA sauna room in Aichi-Nagoya, the evening of September 19, 2026. Thirty...
Lo Thi Phung's Asian Games Quarterfinal Loss to Lee Bomi: Round-Two Pacing and the 54 kg EquationTwo regulation rounds closed with nothing separating the fighters. The extra...
Asiad 20 Diary, September 20: Vietnam Takes 2 Bronze Medals, Thailand Claims 3 Golds – Reading Every Medal with an Evidence-Based EyeSeptember 20, Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. The first competition day of Asiad 20 ende...