Martial Arts
42–41: An Anchor’s Final Touch, and Singapore’s First Team Épée Bronze
The 45-Touch Ledger: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Two Yardsticks of Combat Sport
The Ledger of an Empty Hall: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Keep Its Own Record
42–41: The Touch That Wrote Singapore's Épée History, and the Ten Touches Still Unwritten
Martial ArtsThe Ledger of an Empty Hall: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Keep Its Own RecordHook: A Sheet of Paper With Only Names A December afternoon in 2026, the NSC...
Martial Arts42–41: An Anchor’s Final Touch, and Singapore’s First Team Épée BronzeIt is past two in the morning in Seoul. The coffee on my desk has gone cold,...
Martial Arts42–41: The Touch That Wrote Singapore's Épée History, and the Ten Touches Still UnwrittenOn the strip at the Aichi Sky Expo, the loudest thing that evening was a smal...
Martial ArtsSix Minutes on the Piste, Ten Touches Apart: Auditing Singapore's Épée BronzeThree in the morning in Chattogram. Outside, dogs and launch horns; inside, a...
Martial ArtsA Bronze Won by Losing: Singapore's Épée Relay and the Uncomfortable Arithmetic of 42–41At my desk in Khulna, the first line that caught my eye was not a medal...
Martial ArtsFrom the Last Overtime Touch to Three Medals: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Ten-Touch GapThe scoreboard read 42–41. Regulation time was gone, but the last touch had n...
Martial ArtsThe 45-Touch Wall: Singapore's Épée Bronze and Asia's Real MapFrom the Cot to the Ledger I have kept a notebook of touches for years — whic...
Martial ArtsSingapore Didn't Lose to Korea — It Lost to Its Own 45-Touch ArithmeticAt the Aichi Sky Expo the electronic scoreboard read 42-41 and the clock was...
Martial ArtsThe 45-Touch Ledger: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Two Yardsticks of Combat SportThe 45-Touch Ledger: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Two Yardsticks of Combat...