Martial Arts
Empty Input, Unmined Blocks: Why an Eight-Point Combat-Sports Audit Refused to Write Itself
Below 45: Singapore's Epee Bronze Was Unlocked by Relay Geometry, Not Blade Flash
The Sword Ledger: Singapore's Bronze Is a Document of Entry, Not of Capture
42–41: Singapore's Team Épée Bronze and the Empty Column in My Notebook
42–41: One Singapore Blade Touch, and Bangladesh's Four Ungoverned Golds
Empty Input, Unmined Blocks: Why an Eight-Point Combat-Sports Audit Refused to Write Itself12:45 a.m. in a six-man flat in Cheras. The main lights are off; only the...
42–41: Singapore's Team Épée Bronze and the Empty Column in My Notebook42–41. Read the team épée rulebook once and you will read that scoreline twic...
Below 45: Singapore's Epee Bronze Was Unlocked by Relay Geometry, Not Blade FlashA number kept me awake: 42–41. Singapore versus Uzbekistan, women's team epee...
42–41: One Singapore Blade Touch, and Bangladesh's Four Ungoverned GoldsLast week, going through the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games medal table, I stopped ...
Not 42–41, But 35–45: The Real Scoreline Behind Singapore's Fencing BronzeThe clock was counting down its final seconds on the piste at Aichi Sky Expo....
42–41: Singapore's First Épée Bronze and One Touch Outside the ArithmeticThe scoreboard read 42–41. In team épée the destination is 45 touches, yet th...
42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze Broke a Three-Games Wall — The Mountain Still StandsHook The final relay of the quarter-final. Against Uzbekistan, the scoreboard...
42–41: The Scoreline That Refuses to Fit the 45-Touch Team Épée RuleThe board said 42–41. Overtime. But a team épée match runs to 45 touches — an...
Touch Count: One Touch Behind Singapore's First Medal, a Ten-Touch Wall Named Korea AheadIt is half past three in the morning at my Osaka desk. The stream from the...
The Scoreline That Won't Reconcile With 45: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and the Ledger Nobody PublishedFORTY-TWO AND FORTY-ONE The touch counter at the Aichi Sky Expo épée strip wa...
Singapore's Fencing Bronze: The 42–41 Drama, and the Ten Touches the Scoreboard Leaves BehindI was in the mixed zone in Kuala Lumpur in 2026 when the 145th gold turned...
42–41, Then the Wall: Singapore's Blade in Aichi-Nagoya and Korea's Ten-Touch LedgerAichi Sky Expo, September 2026 The air in Hall 3 of the Aichi Sky Expo is dry...
The Sword Ledger: Singapore's Bronze Is a Document of Entry, Not of CaptureThe Sword Ledger: Singapore's Bronze Is a Document of Entry, Not of Capture A...
42-41 and 35-45: The Fencing Bronze Whose Real Medal Table Nobody PublishedOne The scoreboard at the Aichi Sky Expo piste was frozen on 42-41. When the...
The Quiet Arithmetic of Blades: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze in Aichi-Nagoya, and the Unfinished Sum of Ten TouchesThe hall of blades has a different grammar of sound. A bell rings in the ring...
Singapore's first team épée bronze: a ten-touch gap and Bangladesh's old ledger of four karate goldsSingapore's women's épée team has won its first Asian Games medal — bronze. T...