Martial Arts
The Semifinal Is the Border: The Real Geometry of Vietnam's Sanda Medals at the Asiad
Vietnam's 5-0 Kata Gold: The Number the Report Never Told You
The Golden Arithmetic Beneath the Bronze: Dương Thuý Vi, Wushu, and the Rhythm of a Generation
The Sanda 56kg Final Ledger: Ou Jiaming, Dinh Van Tam and 28 Years of Monopoly Arithmetic
Five Judges, Five-Zero: Vietnam's Kata at Asian Games 20 and a Signal the Medal Table Never Carried
Martial ArtsThe Golden Arithmetic Beneath the Bronze: Dương Thuý Vi, Wushu, and the Rhythm of a GenerationThe three numbers were lit up on the scoreboard, and almost nobody watched th...
Martial ArtsThe Semifinal Is the Border: The Real Geometry of Vietnam's Sanda Medals at the AsiadWhen I sat down with the Vietnamese results report dated September 23–24, I...
Martial ArtsThe Sanda 56kg Final Ledger: Ou Jiaming, Dinh Van Tam and 28 Years of Monopoly ArithmeticNobody applauded when the stretcher came out. I was sitting a few yards from...
Martial ArtsFive Judges, Five-Zero: Vietnam's Kata at Asian Games 20 and a Signal the Medal Table Never CarriedI did not look at the scoreboard first when I sat down in the hall. I counted...
Martial ArtsFive Judges, Five Zeros: What the Scorecard Doesn't Say About Vietnam's Team Kata GoldThe gym bag held a camera, and the camera held a season nobody writes into a...
Martial Arts5-0, 5-0, 5-0 — Vietnam's Kata Gold Was Written on the Roster-Change Date, Not on the Judges' CardsAt Hangzhou, Vietnam's women's team kata gold came with three names on it —...
Martial ArtsVietnam's 5-0 Kata Gold: The Number the Report Never Told YouI rewatched the moment until the crowd noise stopped mattering. Five judges a...
Martial ArtsTwelve Seconds, One Crown and One Wrong Question: What UFC 331 Actually Told UsIt is 1:47 a.m. In November 2026, in a hotel ballroom in Dhaka, I watched six...
Martial ArtsFifty Seconds of Gold, Two Pens Out of Three: Lò Thị Phung and the 54kg QuestionSeptember 20, 2026. By the ring apron I had written three numbers into the...