Martial Arts
Martial ArtsFrom 42–41 to 35–45: The Height and the Distance Inside Singapore's Épée BronzeThere is no roar on an épée piste the way there is inside a boxing ring. Ther...
Martial ArtsThe 42-41 Ledger: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Market That Does Not Open After the MedalHook: The Fourth Name The sound of a blade landing on a jacket, like glass...
Martial ArtsA Bronze Won by One Touch, a Gap of Ten: The Real Scoreboard Behind Singapore's Épée BronzeBoth beaten semi-finalists get bronze; there is no bronze-medal match. At the...
Martial ArtsThe Downbeat Beneath 42–41: Singapore's Épée Bronze and Korea's Ten-Touch DistanceIt was ten past one in the morning in Osaka. The coffee had gone cold an hour...
Martial ArtsThe Ten-Touch Gap: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the First Fencing Page in My NotebookEvery sport has its own column in my notebook. Boxing, judo, wushu, karate,...
Martial Arts42–41: One Overtime Touch, and the Empty Line in Singapore Fencing’s LedgerTwo in the morning in a Chattogram newsroom, the fan still turning, the desk...
Martial Arts42–41: Singapore's First Team Épée Bronze at Aichi Sky Expo and the Arithmetic of 45 TouchesThe fencing strip at Aichi Sky Expo. Three in the morning, Seoul time. In the...
Martial ArtsThe Gap Between 42–41 and 45: Hand-Counting Singapore's Historic Asian Games Épée BronzeMy spiral notebook still refuses to balance: 42–41, when the team target is 4...
Martial Arts35–45: What Singapore's Fencing Bronze Tells Bangladesh About Its Unseen ArenaThe result came out of Singapore in the morning. I was in a Nagoya apartment....
Martial ArtsThe 42-41 Ledger: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Market That Does Not Open After the MedalHook: The Fourth Name The sound of a blade landing on a jacket, like glass...
Martial ArtsA Bronze Won by One Touch, a Gap of Ten: The Real Scoreboard Behind Singapore's Épée BronzeBoth beaten semi-finalists get bronze; there is no bronze-medal match. At the...
Martial ArtsThe Downbeat Beneath 42–41: Singapore's Épée Bronze and Korea's Ten-Touch DistanceIt was ten past one in the morning in Osaka. The coffee had gone cold an hour...
Martial ArtsThe Ten-Touch Gap: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the First Fencing Page in My NotebookEvery sport has its own column in my notebook. Boxing, judo, wushu, karate,...
Martial Arts42–41: One Overtime Touch, and the Empty Line in Singapore Fencing’s LedgerTwo in the morning in a Chattogram newsroom, the fan still turning, the desk...
Martial Arts42–41: Singapore's First Team Épée Bronze at Aichi Sky Expo and the Arithmetic of 45 TouchesThe fencing strip at Aichi Sky Expo. Three in the morning, Seoul time. In the...
Martial ArtsThe Gap Between 42–41 and 45: Hand-Counting Singapore's Historic Asian Games Épée BronzeMy spiral notebook still refuses to balance: 42–41, when the team target is 4...
Martial Arts35–45: What Singapore's Fencing Bronze Tells Bangladesh About Its Unseen ArenaThe result came out of Singapore in the morning. I was in a Nagoya apartment....
