Martial Arts
From 0–5 to Bronze: Vietnam's Two Asiad 20 Medals and the Invisible Arithmetic of Karate Kata
Sanda 56kg Final: China's Six-in-Seven Wall and Vietnam's Twenty-One-Year-Old Hammer
UFC 331: Over Five Rounds, Tsarukyan's Back and Ruffy's Right Hand
That 5-0 Is Not a Fight Score: The Real Ledger Behind Vietnam's Karate Gold
0.133: Dương Thúy Vi and the Reckoning of Wushu Taolu's Roots in Nagoya
Zero Point One Three Three: The Cruel Mathematics of Taolu and Duong Thuy Vi's Final Cycle in Nagoya
Martial ArtsThat 5-0 Is Not a Fight Score: The Real Ledger Behind Vietnam's Karate GoldThe number that left the hall in Toyohashi was 5-0. In Vietnamese headlines i...
Martial Arts0.133: Dương Thúy Vi and the Reckoning of Wushu Taolu's Roots in NagoyaI read the scoreboard three times at my Osaka desk. Gold — 19.546. Silver —...
Martial ArtsZero Point One Three Three: The Cruel Mathematics of Taolu and Duong Thuy Vi's Final Cycle in NagoyaThree numbers sat side by side on the Nagoya wushu venue scoreboard that...
Martial ArtsVietnam at the Edge of the Lei Tai: Four Bronzes in a Day, and Where the Wushu Rhythm Actually BrokeI keep the last hour of a wushu venue for myself. The chairs are already...
Martial ArtsThe 0.133 Gap: Dương Thúy Vi at 33 and Vietnam's Unclaimed SuccessionOn a taolu carpet the scoreboard is a ledger, and the loudest entry is the ga...
Martial ArtsTwo Hypes, Two Paths: Reading UFC 331 Through the LedgerIt was 3 a.m. in Incheon. On screen: corner instructions, a referee's count,...
Martial ArtsFrom 0–5 to Bronze: Vietnam's Two Asiad 20 Medals and the Invisible Arithmetic of Karate KataIt was nearly one in the morning in Colombo when the scoreboard on my laptop...
Martial Arts19.413 — Where Vietnam's Sword Stops, and Why This Bronze Is Not a Farewell GiftThe number was burning on a white background, and I knew instantly this was n...
Martial ArtsFasting, Sauna, and a Bout That Never Began: The Weight-Cut Ledger at Asiad 2026The door of the sauna opened, and a Nepali athlete walked in looking for...
Martial ArtsSanda 56kg Final: China's Six-in-Seven Wall and Vietnam's Twenty-One-Year-Old HammerHook I was watching the feed from a studio in Kuala Lumpur, and the data stri...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: Over Five Rounds, Tsarukyan's Back and Ruffy's Right HandKarama Fan Zone, July 2026. On the night of the France–Croatia final, four...
Martial ArtsA Bronze Decided by Vote: Vietnam's Two Asiad 20 Medals and Bangladesh's Old QuestionI didn't watch it live. At 3 a.m. in a Nagoya apartment I was scrolling a...
Martial ArtsTwo Judges' Hands and a Corner Voice That Never Landed: What Lò Thị Phung's Asiad 20 Loss Actually RecordedWhen the extra round of the women's 54kg MMA quarterfinal at Asian Games 20...