Martial Arts
Four Asiads, One Sword, One Spear: The Pipeline Behind Three Bronzes
Five Judges, Five Identical Cards, One Swollen Knee: What Vietnam's Kata Gold Proved — and What It Didn't
Two Routines, One Bronze, Twelve Years: Duong Thuy Vi and the Unfinished Inheritance of Wushu Taolu
The Semifinal Ceiling: Vietnam's Four Bronzes and the Ledger Nobody Published
Teqball, Kata and 5–0: The Two Bronzes at Asiad 20 That Showed Us the Real Map
Two Routines, One Bronze, Twelve Years: Duong Thuy Vi and the Unfinished Inheritance of Wushu TaoluI sat down to write the score into my notebook after the jian-shu routine, an...
The Semifinal Ceiling: Vietnam's Four Bronzes and the Ledger Nobody PublishedSeptember 23, half past eleven at night. On my desk in Mymensingh: cold tea a...
Four Asiads, One Sword, One Spear: The Pipeline Behind Three Bronzes9.703. When the sword routine ended, the scoreboard put the same number besid...
Teqball, Kata and 5–0: The Two Bronzes at Asiad 20 That Showed Us the Real MapI did not watch it from the stands. I watched it from a Nagoya apartment, on ...
0–5, 5–0, 4–1: The Real Price of Vietnam's Kata Bronze and Teqball's First MedalThe numbers did not climb the board the way weights and rounds sit in a fight...
Vietnam's First Asiad 20 Medal Came From Teqball; The Real Signal Came From Karate KataZero-to-five, and a camera balanced on a water bottle On that September night...
Vietnam vs China: The Invisible Calculation Everyone Forgets in the Sanda 56kg FinalIn last May's Sanda World Cup final in Macau, a throw in the final seconds of...
Five Judges, Five Identical Cards, One Swollen Knee: What Vietnam's Kata Gold Proved — and What It Didn'tI did not watch it live. I sat in front of a laptop in a small apartment in...