Martial Arts
Five Kilograms and One Month: The Quiet Ledger Behind Vietnam's Taekwondo Bet at Asiad 2026
42–41 and 35–45: Two Different Truths Inside Singapore's Fencing Bronze
42–41: How One Overtime Touch Wrote Singapore Fencing Into the History Books
One Touch for History, Ten Touches of Distance: Inside Singapore's Épée Bronze on the Aichi-Nagoya Piste
42–41 and 35–45: One Bronze, Two Truths
42–41: Singapore's First Team Épée Bronze, and South Asia's Empty Piste
Five Kilograms and One Month: The Quiet Ledger Behind Vietnam's Taekwondo Bet at Asiad 2026Five Kilograms and One Month: The Quiet Ledger Behind Vietnam's Taekwondo Bet...
Ahead on All Three Cards, Still Carried Out: The Structure Behind Barcelos's KnockoutBefore the bell for round five, Raoni Barcelos was ahead on all three judges'...
Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze: Nobody Measures the Distance Between 42–41 and 35–45On my Rajshahi rooftop I watched the final bout of the women's team épée rela...
42–41 and 35–45: Two Different Truths Inside Singapore's Fencing BronzeThere is no whistle in fencing. No referee shouting, no play-on, no thud of a...
42–41: How One Overtime Touch Wrote Singapore Fencing Into the History BooksNothing on the clock at the Aichi Sky Expo mattered except one minute. Women'...
One Touch for History, Ten Touches of Distance: Inside Singapore's Épée Bronze on the Aichi-Nagoya PisteThe last half-hour of a dismantled hall always says more than the final score...
42–41 and 35–45: One Bronze, Two TruthsNobody moved for a few seconds after 42–41 settled on the scoreboard at the...
42–41 and 35–45: Singapore's First Team Épée Bronze and an Uncomfortable Gap in the LedgerThe lamp went on at the Aichi Sky Expo. In a room in Dhaka, under the flat...
42–41: Singapore's First Team Épée Bronze, and South Asia's Empty PisteOn piste three at the Aichi Sky Expo fencing hall, the scoring box lit green...
The Ledger of Blades: Singapore's Épée Bronze Was Bought in the Quarter-FinalAIchi Sky Expo's fencing hall is dry air and unforgiving light. On the scorin...
42–41: One Touch on the Épée Blade, and the Wall That Held Singapore for Three Asian GamesBefore the final relay began on the blue piste at the Aichi Sky Expo,...
42–41: The Touch That Rewrote Singapore's Fencing Ledger42–41: The Touch That Rewrote Singapore's Fencing Ledger In August 2026 I...
42–41, and Then One Touch: Singapore's Épée Bronze, the Ten-Touch Gap, and a Hole in the Math42–41, and Then One Touch Women's team épée. Quarter-final. Uzbekistan across...
Not 42–41 but 35–45: The Unpublished Ledger Behind Singapore's Fencing BronzeLast night two numbers landed side by side in my notebook. One is on every...
A Bronze Won by Losing: Singapore's Épée Team, the Ten-Touch Wall, and the Empty Line in My LedgerHook It is 11:40 p.m. in a Bangkok apartment. A table lamp is on, and a phone...